Considering how some of our laws that affect the daily lives of citizens can sometimes be highly complicated, confusing, and convoluted for the average person to understand (not very fair in a democratic country where all are supposed to be equal before the law, and not where lawyers have the upper hand), would it be wise for the government to legally adopt what we might call a 15YO (15-year-old)standard, whereby if it can be reasonably proven that this or that law would be too complicated for the average 15-year-old to understand, then the one accused of violating that law would be exempted from it?
This would certainly force the government to word its laws clearly and precisely yet concisely. I realize that privileged lawyers might feel threatened by such democratization of the law, but then again, is that not how it ought to be?
This would certainly force the government to word its laws clearly and precisely yet concisely. I realize that privileged lawyers might feel threatened by such democratization of the law, but then again, is that not how it ought to be?