The application of Edmund Burke's philosophy would be more effective than any number of laws. Laws do not make people good; rather, an excessive number of laws simply increases the number of lawbreakers.
"Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.”
―Edmund Burke