Status Updates From Let's Abolish Government

Ch 36 P1 Y.S. By the wise reading, you are an emissary, sent along a straight road With a revelation from the powerful, the merciful, so you may warn a folk whose forefathers have not been warned, and hence they are unaware.

So far, Bayard sounds like an upright man to me.

I'm amazed by the sophistry of the Supreme Court, establishing powers not found in the Constitution by means of comparison with foreign nations.

"Taxing them for the support of the laws, on the assumption that they are in favor of the laws, and at the same time refusing them the right, as jurors, to judge of the justice of the laws, on the assumption that they are opposed to the laws, are flat contradictions."
Now arrived at the appendix. This treatise was at times tedious, but very good.

I think Medieval Iceland may be a spanner in Spooners works, but I might be wrong. Still, really good book.

Good arguments as to why the majority principle in assemblies other than governmental ones is not an example of democracy:
1. Such assemblies do not determine rights, but those are determined by charters voluntary agreed upon;
2. Disputes are settled not by a majority vote, but by independent arbitrators or judges.

"And if the king could but make one innovation upon this law, without arousing resistance, and being compelled to retreat from his usurpation, he would cite that innovation as a precedent for another act of the same kind; next, assert a custom; and, finally, raise a controversy as to what the Law of the Land really was."
That process should ring familiar to anyone acquanted with constitutional law.