Civilization is composed of people who cooperate with each other. They do express that in laws that they willingly obey. If they have to be coerced into obeying, is that still civilization? It is a continuum: not enough agreement (laws and regs) is bad and too much is bad. The reality is that at some point the overburden of laws and regs is too much and people will rebel.

The early U.S. did pretty good with a lot less laws and regs. The more people have tried to game the system, the more laws are multiplied. Which is what I said before only a different way. It requires a moral people for the U.S. constitutional republic to work at its best.

Moral = mature
Trying to see what you can get away with = immature

Giving me a chance to be civilized and letting me prosper = good government.
Putting me under the thumb of too many laws = enslavement and tyranny