Re: No constitutional rights in Oregon?

"We really need to stop letting lawyers run our country."

Then stop electing them!

Your example of "plain, simple english" is loaded with terms begging
for definition. But then, where better to find the devil than in the
details?

The problem isn't so much with the legal precision a well-crafted law
requires but with the loss of common reference ... that vast set of
understandings and givens, commonly held by the majority of ordinary
citizens, that made legal gymnastics largely unnecessary. An agreement
between parties that once required only a handshake to confirm now
requires the ministrations of legions of high-priced, language parsing
technicians. When we abandon "first things," we abolish the notion of
"common sense," and with it, a life that might be lived more freely.
More sanely?

Thoreau was right: "Simplify, simplify!" Perhaps regrettably, Thoreau
seems not to have prevailed.

Rambling on but offered here, a sidebar to this thread.

Tom C.

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