On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Aimee Farr wrote:
You gnaw at a branch and call it a root.
Opposite ends of the same thing. You can't have one without the other so in a very real way to eat a potato is to chew on a potato branch (in a figurative way of course).
You have common law (the law of common men, lex communis), and legislative law (bringing the law of the sovereign).
You draw a false distinction, the Constitution starts out with what phrase? Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. ____________________________________________________________________ If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------