Everyone who wants to control others (liberals) wants power. Knows they need and require power.
Knowing this they know to be effective they must keep power and maintain it, and often increase it and maintain it.
They keep it by controlling the law and writing the law so as to allow them to keep power.
This is the second greatest reason why a countries’ laws increase greatly. The first is because societal decay destroys individual self-control, so the control of the individual - since they are no longer desiring to govern themselves - reverts back to government, often at the pleading of its own citizens.
The greatest reason is something we don’t even recognize: the lack of national consciousness. We plain don’t have national governments, not in the US and not in Europe. The corollary is that every modern government governs like an occupying force, but multiplying rules of curfew.