Ed Feulner: Give it Arrest – criminal law has become a vehicle for social change instead of social order

Ed Feulner, President of Heritage Foundation, writes at Townhall: “As the American Bar Association reported a few years ago, there are now so many laws (at least 4,000 by one expert estimation) ‘that there is no conveniently accessible, complete list of federal crimes.’ Throw in federal regulations (there are 300,000 of them, according to a Columbia law professor), state laws and local ordinances, and you, too, could be a felon and not even know it . . . In recent years, though, the law has grown in a different direction. ‘Criminal law has become a vehicle for social change instead of for the maintenance of social order,’ explains Edwin Meese III. A former attorney general, Meese penned the introduction to a new book from The Heritage Foundation, ‘One Nation Under Arrest.’. . . ”