This creates an ever-growing, bewildering body of statutes and regulations that threaten to overwhelm both the public and the legal system itself. We are, in essence, drowning in rules, many of which are archaic, redundant, or just plain silly. Today, the number of federal laws is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands, with some sources citing as many as 300,000. For example, in a recent year, federal agencies issued over 3,000 new rules, while Congress passed fewer than 200 laws. The solution isn’t to stop creating new laws, but to create a legal system that is more dynamic and self-correcting.