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That tells us something about the nature of what passes for "law" in contemporary times, doesn't it? I mean, there's no particular reason that every single citizen shouldn't understand what is and what isn't illegal, without any need for a specialized class of judges, lawyers, etc. to interpret, debate, spin and mangle things.

Limit the scope of government very narrowly, to about what Bastiat argued for[1] and a lot of this problem would go away.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html