The only good law is the common law. France is not a common law nation, except that if one wanted to get to the core division between civil law and natural law, he would wind up with common law. But this is a hard thing to do in a civil law nation.
So, what is common law... the common law of the people? It is law that allows freedom among the people in every form as long as a person's freedom does not:
1. harm another person;
2. damage the property of another person;
3. break a contract.
That's it.
Make the government do only one thing among the people it governs. Make it to judge the above 3 things fairly and rightly. That's it. No other laws.
The way to make it happen is to give the common people the best guns, lots of ammo, and training on how to use their guns. If this is done, here's what will happen.
The people will get rid of the only thing that wants to make trouble for them, their own government. THEY will FORM the new government that does nothing except to judge between petty arguments and disagreements between the people.
The benefit will be wealth for all, because the people will not have to pay the taxes that are used to support the wealthy who get rich by being the civil law government.