To avoid ignorance of the law the entire population needs to go to law school.
“To avoid ignorance of the law the entire population needs to”...shoot all the lawyers, erase all laws, and start over.
Not even lawyers know ALL the law. Most are only knowledgeable about the parts in their area of expertise, and still have to research the exact answer to questions.
To what end?
It has already been established that even law "professionals" with decades of training and experience are unable to know, understand and apply the hundreds of thousands of laws, policies, regulations and "precedents?"
Does revisiting Atlas Shrugged suddenly make total sense?
Except for the distressing fact that the more I read what "esteemed legal minds" have to say on issues, the more certain I am that nothing galvanizes ignorance like their education.
Take, for example, the phrase first amendment protected speech
— the first amendment confers exactly zero protections upon speech, what it does is prohibits the Congress from making any law abridging the freedom of speech
… but then they whip out the Fourteenth Amendment and the so-called Incorporation
, which is claimed applies all of the Bill of Rights to the States (and subordinate government). Except there's a HUGE problem here: the States, Counties, and Municipalities simply don't have a Congress. This means that in order for Incorporation
to have any effect the First Amendment must be altered in some manner before being applied to the State/County/Municipality. (But nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment is altering the Bill of Rights, so that cannot be the case.)
So, what we really have is a bunch of people in Black Robes trying to usurp power, wrapping themselves in the veneer of the law and legalisms.
“To avoid ignorance of the law the entire population needs to go to law school.”
I know that is sarcasm but it emphasizes that even that suggestion would not help. If it were possible to go to law school and come out understanding all the laws it would not be necessary for lawyers to have so many narrow specialties. Not even the nation’s greatest lawyers know how to live here without breaking laws unwittingly.