The Utopians “have but few laws, and such is their constitution that they need not many. (…) They think it an unreasonable thing to oblige men to obey a body of laws that are both of such a bulk, and so dark as not to be read and understood by every one of the subjects.”
Thomas More, Utopia, 1516 (Open Utopia by Stephen Duncombe,
isbn 978–1–57027–245–5)