The Law of the Classroom

[palani]

Imagine a room in a school containing a blackboard and several colors of chalk with no eraser. The blackboard has completely been covered with white chalk writing from earlier classes so that little of the base blackboard is visible. The next classroom is in session and the instructor selects green as his chosen color of instruction. The instructor following him chooses blue. And so on.

The blackboard represents the underlying Law of Blackboards. Small bits and pieces of the blackboard are visible between chalk writings. The writing represents the Law of the Instructor (the creator of the writing) for the current class. Students are instructed to take no cognizance of any chalk writings in a color not selected by their own instructor but they are able to read these writings and occasionally become confused with the message they are supposed to be studying. As these older writings become covered up they become more obscure until their meaning is lost entirely even to the attendants at the original class.

And there you have an imperfect analogy in which the blackboard represents the constitution (any constitution ... generic) and the writings of the instructor represent statutes and principles for his particular field of study. You attempt to find some reason in this confusion of writings but unless you attended a particular class (Common Law, Equity, Maritime Law, Admiralty Law, International Law, Municipal Law, Magna Carte, Law of the Forest, ....) all of it amounts to gibberish. These fields all use the same constitution as a base to write their 'law' upon and rely upon that constitution to support their writings.

You get hauled into a 'court' of a particular flavor to be tested upon your understanding of the principles they espouse and that you are supposed to have violated. These judicial actors all rely upon some perceived constitutional connection. You might ask the judicial actor if he has taken an oath to the blackboard to which his response is going to be positive. He understands that there is a blackboard behind the chalk writings he was instructed in but he has only actually seen bits and pieces of it and he has no first hand knowledge of it.

And what are you doing in that court to begin with if you didn't attend the class?

Anyone know where one could find an eraser?

The blackboard is real. It is an object. The Law of the Blackboard is surreal. It is an essence. It is the principle that ANYTHING WRITTEN HERE IS THE LAW OF YOUR CLASS and if you aren't taking that class WHY ARE YOU IN THE COURT?

[Glass]

Jurisdiction is always a good question. Perhaps better to tackle subject matter jurisdiction as opposed to personal jurisdiction unless you are on a solid footing. Appearing or projecting from a superior jurisdiction is always preferred. It is always assumed you took the class. The issue is proving you didn't attend or didn't need to. As per above. In some situations a superior jurisdiction could be a state domiciled man or woman. AFAIK a state is superior to Federal in most areas.

I appreciated the point about the statutes being written over time with many changes in political sentiment influencing what was written. SO that sometimes it almost appears schizophrenic when viewed enlarged

[palani]

Should you come up with a couple handymen and pry that blackboard down (the one that represents the U.S. constitution) you will find another very similar to it labeled ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. It might even have some writing on it since erasers have not been invented yet for government. Pry that one down and they will be another, and another, until you peal the last one off the wall and you might come to some point of beginning. Otherwise if you elect to forget the pealing and just put up another blackboard that is made of clean slate .... I expect all you will have accomplished is to simplify your problems for at most a generation and likely less.

When the XIV amendment was constructed the original blackboard was retained but a film was placed over it that made illegible all the previous writings.

[palani]

The issue is proving you didn't attend or didn't need to. As per above. In some situations a superior jurisdiction could be a state domiciled man or woman. AFAIK a state is superior to Federal in most areas. "Is this a communist court (or class if you prefer)? 'Cause I am not a communist."


I appreciated the point about the statutes being written over time with many changes in political sentiment influencing what was written. SO that sometimes it almost appears schizophrenic when viewed enlarged
Almost like these statutes were constructed by a committee with no sense of direction or goal.

[govcheetos]

don't enroll.