“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)

A bill for the 2025 legislative session which was prefiled today:

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 721 [pdf]
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CHRISTENSEN.
1733H.01I
DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 1, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to legal personhood.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
[….]
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a governmental entity shall not grant legal personhood to, nor recognize legal personhood in:
(1) Artificial intelligence;
(2) An inanimate object;
(3) A body of water;
(4) Land;
(5) Real property;
(6) Atmospheric gases;
(7) An astronomical object;
(8) Weather;
(9) A plant;
(10) A non human animal; or
(11) Any member of ataxonomic species that is not a human being.

But, we repeat ourselves.

Representative Mazzie Christensen, a Republican, represents Worth, Caldwell, Daviess, Grundy, and Harrison counties (District 2) in the Missouri House of Representatives. She was elected to her first two-year term in November 2022.

[….] Prior to being elected, Christensen served in the White House as an executive assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel John McEntee under the Trump administration, as well as a war room analyst for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. She also worked as an intern for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, and a communications assistant for the Congressional Office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
[….]

That explains a lot.

Do useless bills fall under the same category as farts? Just asking.