Posted on 01/29/2012 9:45:19 AM PST by pinochet
Yes.
I feel the same way.
Yes, and more so at the Federal level than in the states; even though some states too need to cull the useless and redundant, and splintered dead wood out of their criminal and civil law code registers.
Imagine if we actually still even had a Republican Party. We don’t. The current spawn are as evel, corrupt, and owned by China as the DEMs.
““The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
There is a reason old sayings are old sayings; their truth.
Does anyone have an idea about how many laws and regulation with the force of law have been enacted by our Federal government since 1789? Broken down by year or Congress would be even more interesting.
Without early American morality (Puritan, early American Presbyterian, Huguenot, all), we’ll soon have nothing.
I have read that when Dolly Madison fled the WH in the war of 1812, she took the entire collection of Federal Laws on the books consisting of three volumes.
How many carriages would be needed to remove the books of Federal laws today!
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." Tacitus, Roman Senator and Historian (A.D. c.56 - c. 115)
Tacitus (c. 56/57-ca. 125) was a Roman orator and historian. In a life that spanned the reigns of the Flavian emperors and of Trajan and Hadrian, he played a part in the public life of Rome and became its greatest historian.
How many citizens have read any law?
When the bills and laws passed in one day have to be brought in by boxes I doubt many. How many of our elected to the houses read any law before voting? ZERO!
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