TOO MANY LAWS

The United States Of America is a republic not a democracy. The definition is as follows,1.Direct democracy (or pure democracy)[1] is a form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly, as opposed to a representative democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives.2 A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people.[1][2] In modern times, a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch.[3][4] The word republic is derived from the Latin phrase res publica, which can be translated as "a public affair", and often used to describe a state using this form of government. We are governed by laws enacted and approved by Federal ,State and local branches of government. My concern is that  all these governments are doing is enacting laws upon laws with no thought of constitutional veracity or impact upon our social and personal freedoms. Presently there are so many antiquated laws on the books that need to be removed or updated.The problem is  we should just enforce the laws we do have and stop piling on new ones. As I see it commonsense has become a thing of the past and not a part of todays legislative conscience.Soon enough we will have a nation of criminals, having the largest prison population in the world. With so many laws being enacted every day, it will become impossible to not break one .