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- From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: fornication
- Keywords: Sin taxes
- Message-ID: <T9aPXB1w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 00:30:04 GMT
- References: <C15sL3.2Bp@sci.kun.nl>
- Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
- Lines: 15
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- hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
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- > Which one? Are you referring to:
- > [...]
- > They're both dicta, but only one of them is in the constitution.
-
- What matters which one? Neither has the force of law.
-
- Too often, people confuse comments (dicta) or a personal inter-
- pretation as a basis of law. So one may as well cite the Articles
- of the Federation of Planets as the dicta of any document or case.
-
- ---
- Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
-