ABSTRACT
A proponent of plain language legislative drafting has admitted to entertaining a dream:
Like a poor man’s Martin Luther King, I have a dream. It is that every person of reasonable intelligence and literacy may sit at their kitchen table and open a small book or CD-ROM in which the most important laws that govern them are clearly and simply written in their original, unabridged form. I have that dream. But we stand a long, long way from making it reality. Indeed, I sometimes think the prospect is daily receding (Cutts 2000, 11).
