Excessive Laws and the Self-Interest of Lawmakers, Lawyers, and Judges

Excessive Laws and the Self-Interest of Lawmakers, Lawyers, and Judges The basis of a civilized society is right. The rightfulness allows for standardized treatment of men, the law allows people to intend their futures, the law gives people assurance that pass ons, contracts, and trusts will be enforced, that certain behavior will be allowed while other behavior (crimes and torts) will be punished, etceteraFive important characteristics of "the law" in a civilized society follow 1) The law must be of manageable size so the ordinary man can learn the law without a lifetime of study. 2) The law must be simple enough for the average man to grasp and understand. 3) The law must be stable so men can, once they learn the law, live their lives with great assurance that they know the law and atomic number 18 not violating the law. 4) The law must be internally consistent so a man who follows one law does not find himself violating some other law. And last, but not least, 5) & quotman made" law must harmonize with the unchanging law of God.Each of these principles needs to studied in light of Americas current legal expressionManageable size The typical public or academic law library contains over 100 million pages (in excess of 100,000 volumes) of statutes, regulations, reported legal decisions, commentaries, crosscut indexes, law dictionaries, legal encyclopedias, law review articles, etc. However, most law libraries hand found all these pages inadequate. In the last ten years they have added "on line" access to great legal web sites run by Lexis and West Legal Publishing. These web sites allow law students and lawyers to do supple searches of all published material related to a given topic. These web sites are expensive but if the right legal key words are entered the results are very useful. Twenty to one hundred pages of information is displayed on the screen. In an hour or two each journeyman lawyer will know all that is worth knowin g about some narrow area of the law. Of course, total or complete knowledge is beyond human reach. No one not even the most dedicated legal scholar can claim to know "all the law". In fact Americas stain recalls ancient Rome, just before its fall, when the laws began to multiply. A sage of the late Roman Empire remarked "A corrupt society has many laws".Simplicity As the front description makes clear, ma... ... in their lives and that He is unrelated to the central activity of their daily routine? It is obvious that each such gradation is simply another step on a slippery slope away from God.So why do lawmakers, lawyers, and judges violate these five obvious rules. The only answer that makes any sense is self interest. Lawmakers want to be re-elected so they pass laws which pander to mans baser instincts and give special advantage to large contributors. Judges at the appellate take (and bureaucrats in the executive branch of government) are lured by the evil urg e to become "little gods". They put Gods Laws aside and set off on their throw to re-define right and wrong. Judges at the trial court level become friendly with the lawyers that appear before them so they act in ways which add the power and/or wealth of these lawyers. Lawyers themselves are in need of income to support their families in an aristocratic fashion, so they encourage judges and lawmakers to increase the complexity of court of law procedures and/or law in general so more "lawyers work" is created. Simple laws and simple court room procedures are not the stuff upon which exalted legal fees are built.