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Even if we are clever and are in fact perfectly law abiding citizens, members of the law...


... STILL know and are required TO know more about the law than arguably many of us not officially part of the legal system (those who WORK for it, police, lawyers, judges, prison officers etc etc etc or even those in FBI, CIA possibly etc) EVER will in life, and that's also because, system of law has some or other SECRETS of various varieties that they will not tell us ordinary citizens.

But is that all entirely normal, natural, logical and mostly at least FINE or is it actually PROBLEMATIC on some levels?

But also, keep in mind, we have laws that are in some ways either new or are being expanded on and even some, albeit not all, stuff that may have been more "tolerable" say 20 years ago has become illegal TODAY, one way or another.

And we don't ALL have EASY ACCESS to such information. ALSO...

Is it normal and understandable that the presenters of law operate and even THINK differently than say parents who punish their children for misbehaving or even threats (even if it may NOT be "illegal") or teachers who tell students off or people who fall apart, and that they both have certain LINES but also in some ways FURTHER PUNISHING METHODS that ordinary beings among us do not?

And its not simply due to them being "good guys" (that is - if they don't do something bad themselves or engage in even illegal forms of police brutality) but in a more official (keep in mind, law is also a BUSINESS, and a JOB and not a human merely morality force) and perhaps more intelligent as well, and I am talking sometimes smaller crimes or misdemeanours here not major ones let alone "murder" and the lot.

But is it also normal that cops and people who work in law know more about law than even the biggest law abiding citizens do among general public, not to mention, its because they CREATE it too? Thanks.

P.S. Is it also normal that we can't talk to and be friends with cops entirely at our will and leisure or ask why certain people have been arrested and etc? Heck, what if people arrested let's say not all for major crimes, worry about their safety whilst incarcerated, any "guarantees" of protection and if NOT, is it always say those law members or guards' etc FAULT? Not to mention, in life its all also NOT like in the movies AT ALL. :)

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The principle that ignorance of the law is not a defence is, to my mind, utterly authoritarian and Orwellian. It essentially makes the distinction between lawful and unlawful behaviour arbitrary from the perspective of citizens. I doubt anyone without a background in legal matters could name even 10% of existing laws. In most countries, it's impossible to say with certainty how many laws there are. (According to this blog post, there were around 3,000 federal criminal laws in the US in 1982: https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-question-how-many-federal-laws-are-there/.)

However, a legal system can't operate without this principle.

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James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution, was already thinking along these lines some two hundred years before that statistic was assembled in the blog you cited. In 1788, he wrote in Federalist 62:

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood

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