Not for about a century and a half. We have so many laws that no one can keep them straight. I probably break more than a few laws every day, and these are the ones I break inadvertently. We won t even discuss my scofflaw propensities. This is what comes of having lawyers dominating every branch of the government, of course.
Lawyers love laws, especially silly, long, vaguely-worded ones.
They bring in the big bucks, those laws. Just ask any unarmed citizen who s been shot by the machine-gun carrying militarized police. Sure America is a free country if Nazi Germany was free, if Stalin s Russia was free, or say, Castro s Cuba. The only difference between those countries and this is we do not yet have huge pictures of the Dictator all over the place. If Algore becomes president, I suspect that may change.