This observation by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Annals is as true today as when he wrote it over 1900 years ago.
Whether you translate it as: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government", or as: "The more corrupt the state, the more laws", the wise message is the same.
Wikipedia has an entire article devoted to the various possible translations of the phrase res publica . Res is, of course, a fifth declension noun and publica an adjective.
Plurimae is part of the 1st / 2nd declension adjective plurimus, a, um, which means most or very many.
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