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Have you actually studied history? Are you completely unaware that it was not regulation that "got us 40 hour work weeks, child labor laws, and a cleaner environment" those things were coming about before the regulations were written, the regulations really were unnecessary and all they've really done is create barriers to innovation. And who the hell said they didn't want to help, not I! Did you even read my last paragraph?

"with the caveat that when someone's life, liberty, or property (our unalienable rights) are at stake, one takes action by stopping the perpetrator's ability to violate the rights of another in whatever manner necessary to achieve that goal while protecting your own life, liberty and property, too."

No one wants to get rid of the methods for getting recompense for violations of unalienable rights, we libertarians just want those methods to be equitable for all, currently the state if favored over all individuals, it is the individuals who should be foremost in any law enforcement court system. We must make the limited government stick to the rules instead of always skewing things in favor of the government. And if changes should be made to the Constitution follow the rules for that, too. You don't do it by executive order or passing a bill. It requires 2/3 vote in both houses of congress to pass an amendment, and 2/3 of the States to ratify it before it legally changes the Constitution, a good 90% or more of the laws passed in the past 100 years are absolutely unconstitutional. Just because they have not yet been challenged in court (this is where Americans have neglected their duty to enforce the Constitution) does not make them Constitutional laws. And laws which are not Constitutional need not be obeyed:
http://soundofcannons.blogspot.com/2010/12/do-we-have-to-follow-unconstitutional.html
Quoting FTA:
As congress continues its daily deluge of anti-American legislation, its un-American activities, bear in mind that just because congress said it, doesn’t make it so. Consider this opinion of the Supreme Court:
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and any statue, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it.
An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.
Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principals follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it . . .
A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one.
An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.
Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.
– Sixteenth American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Section 177. (late 2nd Ed. Section 256)
Keep this in mind when your friends and family, or your elected officials tell you that “it’s the law, you have to.” If that law is arbitrary to the constitution, if it renders you subject to illegal or unconstitutional laws and acts it is in fact, null and void.
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We have too many laws and regulations and most of them are clearly unconstitutional.

"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." — Cornelius Tacitus, 55-117 AD, Roman historian

"Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them." — Demonax - (Roman philosopher, circa 150 A.D.)

"Virtually all reasonable laws are obeyed, not because they are the law, but because reasonable people would do that anyway. If you obey a law simply because it is the law, that's a pretty likely sign that it shouldn't be a law."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." — H.L. Mencken

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." — Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." — Charles Austin Beard, historian

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