How a Mash of Pig Lips and Cow Anus Becomes a Delicious Sausage (or How a Bill Becomes a Law)

Everybody loves following the law, right? But where do they come from? For years and years, mankind has speculated about from where our speed limits, jaywalking directives and murder-in-the-face prohibitions have sprung. Some have suggested they were carried down from a big book in the heavens by a giant bird. Others say the bird was actually a reptile leathery. Still others say the wings were more of a pleather-like like material. Will these arguments have no end?

No! They will not have no end! Because something called the Design for America contest had a category called "How a Bill Becomes a Law" which led to this winning flowchart which is way to big to post up here on the blog in its entirety but is still a very interesting thing to read all the same…

Read the whole thing.

Tags: House of Representatives, Law & Order, Lobbyists, Senate