Originally Posted by fifthofnovember

If we had a constitutional amendment that would sunset ALL laws every 5 years, we could stop the insanity. Instead of laws from here to Hell, only important laws would be re-passed every 5 years. In this way people might actually be able to know what the law is. I mean, isn't it a load of crap to be told "ignorance of the law is no excuse" when there are more laws passed every year than you could read if that was ALL you did, on top of all the existing laws? This also would reduce selective enforcement. It would solve prison overcrowding, as well as end the shame of having so many good people labeled criminals in the "land of the free". The campfire that was our government has become a forest fire.