If you're reading this thread and you've not seen SovCit/FotL before, all the stuff about crowns and oaths and homophones seems random. What holds it all together (apart from self-interest) is an anxiety about the ground of political authority and the ontology of law.https://twitter.com/sexenheimer/status/1259308704253394944 …
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It is, again, self-serving above all else. But what they play on is the worry that law might be merely conventional. So there's always this appeal to a 'real' law or a 'real' state, the apparent/operative one being a fake or simulacrum.
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Which is why it doesn't really matter how often the courts reject this stuff: if you think there's a 'real' law independent of how courts interpret statute and precedent, you can go on believing the courts have gotten it wrong 100% of the time.
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Even the weird maritime punning stuff comes back to this: 'here's what words *really* mean!' Hence the obsession with Black's Law Dictionary: the idea that words have fixed, metaphysical essences that have been lost in common usage.
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Apropos of nothing, this particular tweet made me think of
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There is definitely nothing quite so funny as people who start spouting maritime law in arguments that clearly have nothing to do with it
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There has to come a moment, when you’re yelling “Man overboard!” every time someone leaves the courtroom in which you’re being tried, that you think “ok maybe this stuff isn’t quite the cunning legal strategy I was led to believe.”
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I know several people who've represented such great legal minds at various points in their downwards spiral and from what I understand it is not surprising that they are the ones who keep trying even when it is very clear that it is not working
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