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3 Basic Original Laws We Lived By
Are We a Republic, a Democracy, or What Are We Really?
To answer the above question, I’d have to declare: “I don’t know!”
In the United States of America:
I understand these three laws need to be better defined and understood. They are too simplistic. But is this worse than being too complicated?
But the fact is we have become so complicated it is almost insanity. Politically, what used to be conservative is now called liberal by some, and what used to be liberal is now called conservative by some. And not everyone believes the same way on this. It’s just all too complicated.
Even as a lawyer, I have trouble understanding the way we are governed today in the U.S. Sometime around 1900 (one authority says 1890–1920) things became so complicated it may require a Ph.D. from Harvard to even begin understanding things — and most of them wouldn’t understand.
Saturated with Laws
Our world is so saturated with laws it’s almost insane. A retired United States Supreme Court Justice has said, “We now have 10,000,000 laws, federal, state and local, to enforce the 10 commandments.”
Between federal, state, county and local laws, we are buried in law.
