On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 08:50:48AM -0400, Stirling Newberry wrote:
On May 7, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
That's an awful lot to proclaim without a supporting argument. I'm interested in details of why you think so.
Well, my PhD is on the emergence of Law and I am using wikimedia and wikipedia as demonstrations for my arguments :)
But you're right, I should write something on it !
A simpler response would be to cite the clause in the statute that says this. To me a fundamental principal of law is that anything which is not specifically forbidden is allowed.
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It isn't a principle of law, the correct principle is "that which is not forbidden is allowed". The specifically changes the meaning entirely.
Perhaps, then, that should be rephrased "that which is not 'explicitly' forbidden is allowed" rather than "specifically".
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