One of my brother's passed along Joseph Sobran's The Commandments of Men. It's something that I agree with since I can't understand how liberty can be maintained after centuries of legislation. Mr. Sobran gets it right when he says:
...Keeping the Ten Commandments, or even all 613 commandments of the Torah (or Pentateuch), isn't enough to protect you from the wrath of the state, which is constantly adding thousands of new commandments of its own--"incessantly engaged in legislation", as C.S. Lewis once put it.
That's a lot of threats. At what point will we have enough of them? This question is seldom asked, since all parties agree that we need more threats (alias "laws") and the idea that we already have enough, or too many, and that some should be repealed, is inadmissible.
Though I disagree that the Commandments would make good laws, I do agree that having a single set of unchanging laws would be better at protecting liberty than any legislator. I only long for the day when the Rule of [Natural] Law prevails.
