A particular phenomenon is absurd length of some law acts, up to over thousand pages. You heard of the Patriot Act, numerous pork-barrel projects and "hidden" details in US lawmaking. Can we compare obscurity and length of laws in various countries, or of different times?
As a concrete example, ponder by what intentions The Second Ammendment is formulated like this:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
What is "Militia", why it is stressed first? How a right can be "well regulated"? Is "necessary to the security" a declaration or a condition?
'A well regulated Militia' meant (then) the temporary deputizing of citizens to train and fight to defend the state/territory - under military command and under military rules.
The right to keep and bear arms was to fulfill that duty of serving in the militia, not for any other reason - according to the amendment as it was understood at the time it was written.
Sentence construction changes. Vocabulary changes. ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Later in the 19th century, a 'posse' of deputized sheriffs would be formed under the same principles - they brought their own horses too.
The military draft is a form of deputizing, except you are not allowed to bring anything of your own ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
horses with bears arms would be very scary though Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
