After 227 Years, They Still Don't Know What It Says???
And this from people who were just looking at in in the National Archives!
This got me thinking...will all of the rights enshrined in the first Ten Amendments also be etched in stone in the Gulch?
This got me thinking...will all of the rights enshrined in the first Ten Amendments also be etched in stone in the Gulch?
See here:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
and here:
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
and a third rambling exchange of 163 comments, a few of which actually a substantive proposal.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
The problem has been given deep thought by Wolf Devoon, an attorney associated with several "new country" projects. See "The Constitution of Government in Galt's Gulch" here
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
Devoon tackles the first premise of libertarian theory, that the government has no right to initiate force. We argue that in compelling you to appear as a defendant, the government is (presumably) responding to your (alleged) violation of the rights of another. However, by what right does the court compel you to appear as a witness? Maybe Devoon is wrong and you always can refuse to appear as a witness. You may have a "natural right" to mind your own business and not be compelled to get involved in the affairs of others. Devoon argues otherwise, and, I believe, cogently so. Thus, the government does have a right to initiate force against the innocent. … or so it would seem …
As for the Gulch, consider the Seventh Amendment. "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law." Realize that this means, again, that the court can initiate force, compel you serve on a jury so that someone else can bring a law suit for civil damages not a criminal case. How does that work in Galt's Gulch?
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