The Tyranny of Laws: More laws don’t mean a more just society. Tacitus: “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.” Make a million laws and you can catch anyone for anything, anytime you want.
No, what he said is: corruptissima re publica plurimae legis.
Because Latin lacks signs to indicate things we take for granted, like full colons, semicolons, comma's and accents, etc, literally he says:
the most corrupt common cause plural laws. (it rhymes)
It is a cleaver trick and conforms to your point 5. It is a sign of a most corrupted republic, or even common cause, when laws are befitting a plurality of interpretation. And yes, criminalizing behavior, whatever that behavior may be, in lieu of some ideology, indeed corrupts. But not only the republic, or common cause, but society at large.
Interestingly, the Declaration of Independence recounts certain instances of that.
Currently, we could point to the two tiered (plurimae) justice system: rules for thee but not for me.
Another point worth stressing, is that Romans, philosophically speaking, were more practical than say: Greeks. Their view is the immutability of the state and thus the station of people. History teaches a different perspective. The state is functioning as an outgrowth of the cohabitation of the people. So, not station is the guiding principle, but the rights of man.
Indeed, a two tiered justice system is the example of a most corrupted Republic.
No, what he said is: corruptissima re publica plurimae legis.
Because Latin lacks signs to indicate things we take for granted, like full colons, semicolons, comma's and accents, etc, literally he says:
the most corrupt common cause plural laws. (it rhymes)
It is a cleaver trick and conforms to your point 5. It is a sign of a most corrupted republic, or even common cause, when laws are befitting a plurality of interpretation. And yes, criminalizing behavior, whatever that behavior may be, in lieu of some ideology, indeed corrupts. But not only the republic, or common cause, but society at large.
Interestingly, the Declaration of Independence recounts certain instances of that.
Currently, we could point to the two tiered (plurimae) justice system: rules for thee but not for me.
Another point worth stressing, is that Romans, philosophically speaking, were more practical than say: Greeks. Their view is the immutability of the state and thus the station of people. History teaches a different perspective. The state is functioning as an outgrowth of the cohabitation of the people. So, not station is the guiding principle, but the rights of man.
Indeed, a two tiered justice system is the example of a most corrupted Republic.