• by Sophie Kleber , February 13, 2010

Life without lawyers. We need to overhaul and simplify the law in order to release the energy in Americans that is needed for change.

The blossoms of law have reached new levels of absurdity. The world has become a legal mine field, and this has changed our culture. People no longer feel free to act upon their own judgment, but instead view the world through a legal microscope - creating a state of complete paralysis. There are rules for, against, and around everything, therefore no one can trust the law, no one can know it! This self-consciousness is death to self-accountability - the basis for productivity.

You cannot run a society on the lowest common denominator. What does it take to get normality? Four propositions: 1. Judge law mainly by its effects on society, not individual situations.

2. Trust in law is an essential condition of freedom. Distrust skews behavior towards failure.

3. Law must set boundaries protecting an open field of freedom, not intercede in all disputes.

4. To rebuild boundaries of freedom, two changes are essential: - Simplify the law. - Restore authority to judges and officials to apply law.