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Originally Posted by theking
Around 20 years ago I read an article that claimed there were more than 10 million ordinances and laws on the books in the U.S.A...ranging from City...County...State and Federal. Assuming the article was factual...yes true freedom has certainly been whittled down since the birth of the nation...and of course there have been an untold number of ordinances and laws passed in the past 20 years.
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Up until the 1930's there were only civil infractions. IE. you had to cause bodily or financial damage to another man or woman. This changed beginning with the War Powers Act of 1933. Actually it "legally" change in 1938 with the Erie vs Thompkins case which blurred the lines between man and corporation. All Supreme Court decisions prior to this case are for the most part no longer taken into consideration by the courts. Now you the man are considered in some way harming the "STATE" or whatever other corporate entity.