17. Why are some laws more popular than other
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Democracy Dies in Darkness
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Why the rule of law suffers when we have too many laws
Lavrenti Beria, much-feared head of the NKVD secret police under Joseph Stalin.
Lavrenti Beria, much-feared head of the NKVD secret police under Joseph Stalin.
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Ilya Somin
Contributor, The Volokh Conspiracy
Oct. 2, 2017 at 7:55 p.m. GMT+5:30
Lavrenti Beria, the infamous head of the Soviet secret police under Joseph Stalin, supposedly once said, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” In the Soviet Union, the regime could always find some crime to pin on anyone it chose to target.
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As a general rule, it would be silly to equate the modern United States with a mass-murdering totalitarian state. But in this one respect, the two regimes are more similar than we would like them to be.
Because of the vast scope of current law, in modern America the authorities can pin a crime on the overwhelming majority of people, if they really want to. Whether you get hauled into court or not depends more on the discretionary decisions of law enforcement officials than on any legal rule. And it is difficult or impossible for ordinary people to keep track of all the laws they are subject to and to live a normal life without running afoul of at least some of them.
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popularity
can be use to make laws and the rules made by government