The law is a religion practiced by priests (lawyers) and bishops (judges) according to the papacy (SC)
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At its best, law is a weapons system. Anyone who is a practitioner in it realizes that all of our current man made laws are written on wax. The law says what it means and means what it says until it doesn’t. It is a game.
At its worst, it is a racket.
I don’t know how many laws are on the books. Federal, state and local. I’ll take a guess. 250,000? I look at laws and regulations as two different entities. To me, laws, you can go to jail for. The law is definitely out of control.
What is that quote from “Atlas Shrugged”? Free men can’t be controlled...etc? Well, it’s spot on.
How can moral law be defined in 10 commandments but judicial law takes 250,000? Something has to be done
I don’t know how many laws are on the books. Federal, state and local.
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As you already said, the best answer is “too many”.
It is impossible to say precisely how many laws are on the books. Statutes and case law is ever shifting; never at rest. That is why when someone like the author of the drab essay opines about the fixity and inviolate nature of law, you know you are dealing with an ignoramus.