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stranger
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New poster here. For years now I've tried to remember the word for a society (civil or religious) that has way too many laws. Can someone help me?
ARealGoodMan
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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random thoughts:
o "Too many laws kill the law"
o dysnomy - the enactment of bad laws
o "too many laws" is a truism [see Google[books])
-joe (nomothetic) friday
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veteran
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Byzantine?
Overly-regulated?
Perhaps even totalitarian?
Last edited by TheFallibleFiend; 08/12/2008 4:40 PM.
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Pooh-Bah
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Welcome ARGM.
Draconian is when the laws are too harsh. Legalistic is more about attitude than number. I have heard paternalistic used to imply over-legislation.
Ooh, what about over-legislated.
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old hand
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old hand
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I suggest democratic - Only in a democracy, anybody is allowed to complain about too many laws. On the other hand, a dictator or autocrat does not need any laws.
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old hand
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Nomocratic? Or perhaps hypernomic?
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