Could you enforce a law to makes it illegal to disobey laws?

This was inspired by a comment in the British politics thread

" Is there a law that specifically says people have to obey the law?"

Obviously this a joke,but it raises an interesting question about laws and how you interpret them,we follow the law because it's morally right to and not avoid punishment,but could you actually enforce a law that enforces obeying the law?

Well, not much would change if such a law was created. It doesn't really add or remove incentives to abide by the law. Any arrest would have to be made with another law as the primary reason (or there would be riots about police being able to arrest people on such a vague suspicion). Proving guilt would require proving guilt for another offense, so it could never be charged alone (and it would automatically be proven when another offense was proved). That leaves sentencing, which would presumably become harsher.

Now, people would ridicule the government for making such a useless law.

Such a law is totally redundant, and since disobeying the law is illegal by the very definition of what laws are, this whole question is kind of a non-sequitur.

Edited by CaptainCapsase on Mar 10th 2019 at 7:04:58 AM

A law that says 'you have to follow laws' would have no special significance over any other individual law which says you have to follow it. Anyone who was already ignoring laws would just keep ignoring laws. The conditions for what constitutes breaking a law can be vague (or purposefully murky), but there have been documented cases of laws that legislated themselves into unenforceability or just forgot to include a condition for when you're actually breaking them, and those seem to be pretty far in the minority.