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Why is the American government so complex?

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Simply put, it was designed to be complex. A simple government invests all power in one agency or person. With our tripartite government, the founders sought to prevent any one person from having absolute power. As bad as things may seem right now to some, we are much better off than any Oligarchy or Dictatorship. read more

A radical makeover of American regulation is daunting. Congress can’t even agree on a debt limit, much less recodify several thousand volumes of law. Recodifications through history have always been designed by small committees—such as the small groups of jurists appointed by Justinian and Napoleon for their historic legal overhauls. read more

The government controls the country, meaning that the whole country obeys. The governement tackles money, danger situations (air crashes, oil tanker spills), and many more serious things. Because of all this "Serious-ity", they need to maintain all these situations, making their life work-full and hard, and complicated. read more

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