Very I blogged here about a very recent interview with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Kudos that he comes forward with this serious issue!
The issue of too many laws that have been accumulating over time in Western democracies is at least five decades old as far as I remember. I believe, e.g. the economist Friedrich von Hayek also criticized this condition.
Perhaps in the future our elected representatives ought to eliminate two old laws for every new one! Sounds like Trump!
A clarion call to return to small and limited government!
Caveat: I did not read the whole article.
"Or country has always been a nation of laws, but something has changed dramatically in recent decades. Contrary to the narrative that Congress is racked by an inability to pass bills, the number of laws in our country has simply exploded. Less than 100 years ago, all of the federal government’s statutes fit into a single volume. By 2018, the U.S. Code encompassed 54 volumes and approximately 60,000 pages. Over the past decade, Congress has adopted an average of 344 new pieces of legislation each session. That amounts to 2 million to 3 million words of new federal law each year. Even the length of bills has grown—from an average of about two pages in the 1950s to 18 today. ..."
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