How many federal laws are there?
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July 29th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Ignorance of the law is no excuse!
July 29th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
wfgodbold, true but sadly “Ignorance is an excuse to make laws” seems to be the rule.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
50 volume, 23,000 pages, and I’ll bet that doesn’t even start on the regulatory BS. Amazing.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Sounds like a good way to beat traffic court cases. The Cops wherever I go seem to like the old ignorance is no excuse excuse… However when you stack 10-12 books 2.5 feet high on a desk and tell the jurors they have no excuse to not know this half of the law I imagine that would work rather well…
July 29th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
The numbers have become so high, that for the first time in 2000 years of classical western jurisprudence, US federal judges are actually allowing ignorance of the law as an ameliorating excuse.
July 29th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
We need to send Congress into space.
July 29th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
The most infuriating bit about the “ignorance is no excuse” line is that whenever the police screw up because they didn’t know something, they play the exact same card and it works.
If ignorance is no excuse for Joe Blow on the street, then by God it had better not be an excuse for the guys Joe Blow pays to enforce the damn laws.
July 29th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.” — Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117) Roman orator, lawyer, senator and historian
July 29th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Compare to an article I read from 1887, where the author states he’s just spent the last couple years study and comparison of all the Statute books in the United States.
July 29th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Tacitus said it, Ron W quoted it, I believe it, and that about settles it, save to say: Tacitus could say that in just six words. Scrappy little language, Latin. Terse.
I can’t top it, won’t try, but here’s an aside: In the 7/29 Wall St Jrnl, Prof R Michael Cassidy of Boston College Law School writes, “”What you fail to discuss is the prosecutorial discretion imbedded in our criminal justice system. Not every violation of criminal law brought to the attention of law enforceement authorities results in indictment.”
That was meant to make you feel better. I bet Tacitus would recognize that attitude–and say it in fewer words.
July 31st, 2011 at 4:03 pm
My dad always had the belief that there should be a set number of laws, and any time you wanted a new one you had to find one to repeal; that way you would tend to not pass laws without a “damn good reason”, as he put it.
There are some times when I think he may have had a good idea there.
July 31st, 2011 at 4:33 pm
BobG,
I’ve thouight that too. Congress and our State Legislature should devote whole sessions to only REPEAL.