Posted by europerep on August 4, 2010, at 13:59:27
In reply to Re: America » sigismund, posted by Dinah on July 31, 2010, at 11:29:59
> Laws are often put on the books and people just forget to take them off. There's a funny book on that topic. "The Trenton Pickle Ordinance"
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> It doesn't mean those laws are enforced. Or even remembered.
hey there..I believe that these legislative norms aren't actual laws that have been passed by a representative body that has the constitutional blabla.. I think it's due to the fact that you guys over there have this "precedence" thing, I think thats what it's called.. so if somewhere, some judge issues some sort of "decree" that isn't against a law, it basically obtains the statute of a law.. it's meant to make the judicial system more coherent (what's forbidden in one place, is forbidden everywhere else), but it produces these weird kind of examples of rules that don't make any sense when taken out of context..
although sometimes I have a hard time imagining a context where they do make sense ;-)...
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