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By and large, US law is considered to be stable and has been duplicated precisely for this reason. That's not to say that there aren't areas that couldn't be i
by j_baker 14y ago
By and large, US law is considered to be stable and has been duplicated precisely for this reason. That's not to say that there aren't areas that couldn't be improved or made simpler. Rather, it's to say that we have a society where laws aren't arbitrarily changed on the whims of whatever party happens to be in charge of Congress.
You can almost think of the law just like you would a complex codebase. Unfortunately, we live in an age where the law has become so complex the average person can't keep it straight. I seriously doubt that this would change no matter how the law were refactored. The good news is that we do have a society where a concerned citizen can learn a lot about the law on their own. Thus, I would argue that the law is complex, but easy to approach if you want to become an expert on a particular module or subsystem.