Raynine
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The problem with top heavy laws and regulations is the more they are passed the more lawless society is becoming. We may be returning to a state of nature and I don't think most will like that very much.It was a combination of things over the years as the Federal powers increased more and more and more.
The Progressive era, for example, was one of the biggest factors with the passing of the Federal income tax amendment. Before that, SCOTUS ruled it was unconstitutional, so they simply added it a decade later. That, in my opinion, was the death blow to a limited government. Shortly afterwards, you had Wilson and FDR grabbing more and more power for the federal government to fight wars abroad. In fact, the government now passes about 40 thousand new regulations and laws every year. The problem is, with every law or regulation, freedom wanes. That is why passing laws should be done with great trepidation, something that does not exist.
State of nature | Definition, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, & Social Contract
State of nature, in political theory, the real or hypothetical condition of human beings before or without political association. The notion of a state of nature was an essential element of the social-contract theories of the 17th- and 18th-century philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and...
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