The term, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse", means that you are responsable to comply with the law, even if you do not know that the law exists!
My question is this:
Seeing as how there are hundreds of thousands (millions) of laws in this country (USA), and even Judges, arguably the most knowledgable as far as the law goes, require that precident, and statute be quoted to them, How can it legally be expected for the average person, who has NO contact with the law, theory about the statutes and court rulings, be held to a higher standard than the judges in thier court rooms?
How can the public be expected to know and understand the law when their are so many laws passed constantly and those laws are always written in legalese and are all but unintelligible and purposely written so that the average Joe (or Jane) cannot possibly figure out the meaning?
2007-05-17
04:24:28
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athorgarak
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