Consider this: there are over 4,000 federal statutes alone that bolster the Federal Government. I know cases beforehand have argued ignorance doesn't equal innocence HOWEVER if the tax payer funded school systems failed to educate students on federal and local laws, then they FAILED to inform citizens of the laws that require consent of the governed to be enforceable. Otherwise, public education and REQUIRING it is essentially unconstitutional...
Why have a public education system if it's not going to inform. Not informing people they are then being indirectly coerced into breaking the law which is entrapment... Ignorance IS innocence because citizens were not informed of the laws they were supposedly breaking and thus could not consent either way.
Maybe should sometimes but isn't. The real problem with it is that everyone would claim not knowing the law to make such defense. Of course it has nothing with philosophy of law: "innocent until proven guilty", it is essentially "guilty until proven innocent" - so it is not allowed as excuse.
Constitutional or not - he problem is laws are:
And when I am saying "hard" it means that even child with down syndrome shall be able understand what is lawful and what is not.
Agreed. All statutes and laws need to be abolished and we need to start over.