The author analysises the increase in the length of the texts of laws, which form the core of the Czech legal order. Is the impression of laymen and lawyers that there is a lot of legislation justified? The method of analysis is based on comparing different versions of the same laws over long period of time. Indeed, in comparisson to to past years, particularly after 1990, normative regulation has been extremely widespread (also compared to countries such as Austria). This trend does not depend on the political orientation of governmental parties, neither on the influence of the EU. Such trends demonstrate the existence of a long running procedure of seemingly dealing with social problems, because law is perceived more as a means of enforcing partial group interests than trying to create fair-play rules of society.