Daniel E. Ho

It's too much law.

I mean, we have a professor, Dan Ho, at the Stanford Law School.

He's had this longstanding project simply to catalog the number of laws that are on the books at a federal, state, and municipal level in the United States.

He says, you can't do it.

But that's sort of the nature of the rule-bound society.

Daniel Ho at Stanford did a calculation, helped by AI, that there are three billion words of binding regulation at all levels of government in this country, three billion words.

I've actually calculated federal government, it's only 150 million words.

The Constitution, by frame of reference, including all amendments, is 7,500 words.