The making of a law

Recently, a professor of mine shared a site with me that explains the process by which an idea becomes law and I thought I'd share it.

Click here.

What I find most interesting in the flow chart is the linear process that is depicted.  I have a hard time accepting that ideas becoming law is a linear progression of citizen ideas traveling through steps until the a law is made.  You will notice the first step is "a concerned citizen" introduces an idea via introducing legislation.  The box makes this initial step seem simple and concrete.  It seems to say, "if you have an idea then draft a legislation."

Things aren't that simple.

 First, not all people are heard equally.  This means that you'd need to add "make the right connections to be heard" into this first box.  Second, not everyone has enough information to enable them to turn ideas into legislation.  So, "gain information to underpin ideas must be added" to this first step.  Then one must seriously think about  dimensions of power and elitism, aka who's ideas make it in to the public spotlight and who's don't?  What is the availability of information and do we all, as equal citizens, have equal access to that information.  Not to mention that people vary on their values and priorities in life.  So a debate over values may need to somehow enter this process.  The point is this: Making an idea into law is hardly linear.  Many, many layers of complexity exist.

I wonder if anyone has a flow chart for that?