In 528 AD, Emperor Justinian inherited a Roman legal system drowning in centuries of accumulated laws, conflicting edicts, and contradictory jurisprudence. His solution was radical: commission the Corpus Juris Civilis, a comprehensive codification and streamlining of Roman law across all provinces. Over 14 months, Justinian’s commission reduced approximately 3 million lines of legal text to just 150,000, laying the foundation for the Western legal canon.
America faces its own Justinian moment, but AI raises the stakes, creating a fork between two futures. One future, already emerging in China, is AI-driven totalitarianism. The other is an AI-powered republican renewal.
Between regulations, statutes, and case law, our country has accumulated around 260 million lines of law at the federal level alone. Agencies write rules to expand their authority and incumbents lobby for regulations that raise barriers to entry. While many politicians have tried with varied success
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