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by mike_hearn 724 days ago
> The "volume of laws" required to regulate a complex modern society is far greater than that required for the US 200+ years ago.

I'm not going to get into debating this directly, but please be aware that arguments about the complexity of society are ideological in nature. It's not a simple factual matter on which there's widespread agreement. Many conservatives don't even agree with the premise that society has such a thing as complexity, or if it did that there's a higher level today than in the past.