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

high-spirited Laws and the Self-Interest of Lawmakers, Lawyers, and Judges The basis of a civilized society is righteousness. The equity eitherows for standardized treatment of men, the law allows community to plan their futures, the law gives people assurance that wills, contr chips, and trusts will be enforced, that certain behavior will be allowed while other behavior (crimes and torts) will be punished, etc. quin important characteristics of "the law" in a civilized society prolong 1) The law mustiness be of manageable size so the total man can learn the law without a lifetime of study. 2) The law must be simple enough for the average man to persevere and understand. 3) The law must be stable so men can, erstwhile they learn the law, live their lives with great assurance that they know the law and ar not violating the law. 4) The law must be internally consistent so a man who follows one law does not find himself violating more or less other law. And last, b ut not least, 5) "man made" law must harmonize with the unchanging law of God.Each of these principles needs to studied in light of Americas current jural structureManageable size The natural public or academic law library contains over cytosine million pages (in excess of 100,000 volumes) of statutes, regulations, reported legal decisions, commentaries, cross indexes, law dictionaries, legal encyclopedias, law review articles, etc. However, or so law libraries have open all these pages inadequate. In the last ten years they have added "on line" access to great legal vane sites run by Lexis and West Legal Publishing. These web sites allow law students and lawyers to do ready(a) searches of all published material related to a given topic. These web sites are expensive but if the right legal key talking to are entered the results are very useful. Twenty to one hundred pages of selective information is displayed on the screen. In an hour or two each discove rer lawyer will know all that is worth knowing about some narrow area of the law. Of course, total or complete companionship is beyond human reach. No one not even the most dedicated legal scholar can claim to know "all the law". In fact Americas situation recalls ancient Rome, just forward its fall, when the laws began to multiply. A sage of the late Roman Empire remarked "A deprave society has many laws".Simplicity As the preceding description makes clear, ma... ... in their lives and that He is unrelated to the central activity of their daily routine? It is frank that each such step 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 ply to mans baser instincts and give special advantage to large contributors. Judges at the appellate level (and bureaucrats in the execut ive branch of government) are lured by the evilness urge to become "little gods". They put Gods Laws aside and set finish on their own to re-define right and wrong. Judges at the trial motor inn level become friendly with the lawyers that appear before them so they act in ways which increase 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 shape up judges and lawmakers to increase the complexity of taproom 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 grand legal fees are built.