Totally and utterly false. We have - just at the federal level - 180,000 pages in the federal register that did not exist in 1776. If you look at the state laws that didn't exist last year, last decade, etc. this at least doubles the the count. You need to think a bit before you come up with this nonsense.
I meant that affected people's lives. If you read the diaries of the period, life was very controlled. Women were not allowed to do many things like vote, blacks were enslaved, dress codes were enforced, moral laws were rampant. There was no chance of people living in sin back then. Out of wedlock births could be punished. We have a lot more freedom today.