We often call ourselves a “nation of laws.” What it means officially is that we collectively agree to follow specific sets of rules in order for our society to function fairly, honorably and routinely in life and through mercantile exchange.
Under this banner we do not say that all laws are perfect, absolute or immutable. What is right and just for one generation may not be so for the next, or the next, for attitudes, requirements, conditions and values change.
The founding fathers provided a framework wherein changes through the will of the people are to be made peacefully by a representative democracy applying the art of compromise and compassion. We are the only nation on Earth that has made the legal process an art form and who calls that art the practice of law.
What we might choose to do now is to simplify the understanding and the administration of law so that timely adjudication does not get bound up in a complex bureaucratic system that often requires more money than sense to get a resolution.
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