{"id":11240,"date":"2010-10-11T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/11\/too-many-laws\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:25:26","slug":"too-many-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/11\/too-many-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You&#39;ve heard me say it before.&#0160; Laws should be few in number, rational in content, enforceable, and enforced.&#0160; As it is, we have too many laws, indeed, too many &#39;Ls&#39;:&#0160; too many laws, lawyers, legislators (most of whom are lawyers), and liberals.&#0160; How can a government claim to be representative of the people when it is top-heavy with lawyers?&#0160; That is a question that ought to be asked.&#0160; While you&#39;re at it, ask whether it might not be a good idea to have some de-legislators in among the legislators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinions\/2010\/10\/10\/2010-10-10_drowning_in_law_a_flood_of_statutes_rules_and_regulations_is_killing_the_america.html\" target=\"_self\">America is Drowning in Law.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#39;ve heard me say it before.&#0160; Laws should be few in number, rational in content, enforceable, and enforced.&#0160; As it is, we have too many laws, indeed, too many &#39;Ls&#39;:&#0160; too many laws, lawyers, legislators (most of whom are lawyers), and liberals.&#0160; How can a government claim to be representative of the people when it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/11\/too-many-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too Many Laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality-and-legality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}