I say, get rid of all the legal stuff, and only have laws instead. Or, at least start with that.

An old idea of mine... All laws should only exist for one year. All must be re-voted on individually to continue. Combining many laws into one bill should be unconstitutional.

Laws? Or the other crap? (Ordinances, codes, statutes, rules, etc)

Anything above the Constitution. Oh, another old idea : the average 10 year old should be able to recite the entire body of law. The primary goal of education until age 10 should be memorization of the law - that way everyone hates it as much as they hate shit like Shakespeare. If a cohort ever fails to pass the test - meaning, more than half can't recite the entire body of law - then all laws are immediately suspended and re-voted on.

I define a system as 100 % abusive if you can't read all the text before it changes again AND are held to "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the rules".

Big agree.