"ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it" is fine an dandy when laws amounted to "don't physically hurt people and don't steal their stuff". There ar

"ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it" is fine an dandy when laws amounted to "don't physically hurt people and don't steal their stuff". There are so many laws on the books (statutory and administrative) that is is not remotely possible to follow them all. FFS, there are 40,000 words regulating the sale of cheese. Nobody knows how many laws there even are ESTIMATES range up to 300,000 different laws. But nobody knows for sure http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389601079728920?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304319804576389601079728920.html http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230431980...