If legislators are to enact laws that benefit constituents, they must be sure to consider what the consequences of enacting a proposed law will actually be. Contemporary legislatures fail to enact laws that benefit constituents. Concerned primarily with advancing their own political careers, legislators present legislation in polemical terms; this arouses in their colleagues either repugnance or enthusiasm for the legislation. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A: Legislatures that enact laws that benefit constituents are successful legislatures.
B: The passage of laws cannot benefit constituents unless constituents generally adhere to those laws.
C: The inability of legislators to consider the actual consequences of enacting a proposed law is due to their strong feelings about that law.
D: Legislators considering a proposed law for which they have repugnance or enthusiasm do not consider the consequences that it will actually have.
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
D