Consider that people in the territories now controlled by the U.S. and Mexico were willing to murder thousands of Europeans in bloody gun battles, in order to e

Consider that people in the territories now controlled by the U.S. and Mexico were willing to murder thousands of Europeans in bloody gun battles, in order to escape their governance. And then, when building their own confederation and federation governments, they debated at length on how to avoid the sort of legal foundations that inevitably lead to laws that are draconian, incomprehensible, and/or ridiculous. Unfortunately, history suggests that such laws arise not because the legal foundations are flawed, but because humans are sometimes authoritarian, illogical, or insane, and the laws are little more than the trails left as such people pass through the circles of power. In my opinion, New World laws are only more sensible than Old World laws (on average) because they have spent less time accumulating cruft. But look at how hard the U.S. federal and state legislators work to catch up!