Since the publication of Ekins’s The Nature of Legislative Intent, significant attention has been paid to common attitude models of legislative intention, that is, models that require unanimity among its group members. A common interpretation of Ekins is that these common attitudes are to be preferred over aggregated attitudes. I argue that any feasible theory of legislative attitudes will require nontrivial aggregation (i.e., not based on unanimity rules alone). Two arguments are put forward in this regard: first, that nontrivial aggregation better explains uncooperative legislative behaviour and, second, that mathematical problems with aggregation apply to common attitudes as well, since they involve trivial aggregation. These arguments generalise to theories of common attitudes other than Ekins’s.

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不常见的立法态度：为什么立法意图理论需要非平凡的聚合

自从艾金斯的《立法意图的本质》发表以来，立法意图的共同态度模型，即需要其群体成员一致同意的模型，受到了极大的关注。对 Ekins 的一个普遍解释是，这些普遍态度比综合态度更受欢迎。我认为任何可行的立法态度理论都需要非平凡的聚合（即，不仅仅是基于一致同意规则）。在这方面提出了两个论点：首先，非平凡聚合更好地解释了不合作的立法行为，其次，具有聚合的数学问题也适用于普通态度，因为它们涉及平凡的聚合。这些论点推广到除 Ekins 之外的其他共同态度的理论。