OCR Text |
Show THE LAWMAKING MANIA Uncle Sam is afflicted with the lawmaking disease. His case is the worst in the history of the world. The output is so large the law libraries cannot house it, the lawyers cannot digest or assimilate it. It is said to be a fact that the 48 state legislatures enact more laws than are even proposed by five great nations. The ratio before the war was fifty new laws in Our Country , to one by any great nation of Europe. It takes 650 large volumnes to hold in printed form the Supreme Su-preme Court opinions on questions of constitutionality. The Law Library of Columbia university contains 1 00,000 j volumnes and increases at the rate of 800 a year. I J j Why not stop manufacturing so many laws, try enforcing some of them and repeal some of the others? I A smaller legislative output would be an evidence of political sanity. |