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CMV: Most if not all laws should have an expiration date and have to be renewed

There are many laws that are considered "blue laws" that are not enforced or otherwise nitpicky, outdated, or even unconstitutional laws that are just kind of laying around sometimes centuries old and any police officer that wants to be an a\*\*hole can enforce them whenever they feel like it. In some states it is illegal to carry pliers around (made sense when the laws was made, cowboys cutting wires, but that is not a problem anymore, so nowa cop that does not like you can just charge you for it whenever they feel like it if you happen to have pliers on you). In one state it is illegal to cuss in front of a lady. I personally know people that have been stalked by police for hours while they searched to find some nitpicky outdated law to charge them with. Removing these laws can be costly and time consuming and really the government does not need to micromanage everybody's life, that is not their job, they are there to protect us and that is the reason their jobs exist. If all laws had an eventual expiration date and had to be renewed this would discourage over regulation and allow outdated nonsense laws to naturally expire after a while. The laws that actually matter would be renewed naturally, and the laws that are outdated and unnecessary laws would not be worth renewing over and over again.

Edit: Thank you all for your replies. This is getting much more attention than I expected so keeping up is getting difficult. Thank you for your patience and taking the time to reply. I will do my best to reply.  


Edit 2: Thank you all again for taking the time to expand my view a bit. This blew up way bigger than I expected and it is getting difficult for me to keep the energy up to reply so I may not be able to respond to everybody fully. I was not expecting so much attention but I appreciate all of your time. I might come back and respond to some post later this week.
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Alternative plan: you're going to need a constitutional amendment either way to make this happen, so why not cut straight to the chase and allow citizens to complain to a judge about outdated laws. If the judge finds the law to be not usually enforced due to changed social standards, they issue a judgement and the law must be explicitly re-affirmed within 5 years by the relevant legislature, or it lapses.

That gets your desired effect (old unused laws can be pruned regularly) without forcing the legislature to continually debate settled issues.