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To: DMaA who wrote (15720)	9/5/2001 10:56:59 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 59480

Hi DMA; Gibbons has a fascinating chapter on the trend in the Roman Empire towards legal confusion. Basically, the legal system would get more and more complex until finally everybody agreed that it was a monstrosity and an emperor would sit down with advisers and simplify it. I really see no way that we can avoid this pattern, though it seems likely that the "emperor" part isn't necessary. Eventually, our legal system will get so complicated that the country will decide to simplify it and start over from scratch. I'm not sure if that would mean that the we'd have to start calling ourselves the "2nd Republic" or if we could grandfather in the old one, LOL. I don't think that the system now is at all near the breaking point yet. We do have way too many laws, what passes for trade agreements nowadays is a total travesty of common sense, but the system is getting by. The reason we can pull this off is that we have the highest productive surpluses that history has ever seen. Basically, we've got time on our hands, and so we spend it making laws. -- Carl P.S. I'll post some quotes from that Gibbons chapter as a reply to this post, his prose is so exquisite... Maybe it will inspire someone to use the automatic spell checker.

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