2009/4/17 <donald_at_MDQiOB-BPSwkqHomwS69cPbHBHfHuM7Ccz7A84jUTayxnnRRE3vqhllpkN6kpiD-QtVS1ADdcPPtSx5vohDVSsoe.yahoo.invalid>:
>>[I have also just decided that I like the idea that There Is Always
>>Another Way could lead to some pretty rubbish systems of legislation
>>and precedence - rife with exceptional circumstances. This sort of
>>thing might be okay for a clan but may not be ideal for a kingdom.]
>
> Precedence as it exists in modern law would be incomprehensible
> to Orlanthi and Ernaldans. No chief is bound to follow the ruling
> made in a previous case. He doesn't have to find a difference
> which makes the earlier ruling inapplicable he just disagrees
> and rules the other way.
>
> Certainly it isn't an ideal system. There's no attempt to separate
> politics and law and there's no means of changing the law. On the
> plus side there is continual public scrutiny of the decisions and
> the means for ordinary clansfolk to influence decisions.
Yeah, I agree entirely Donald! I wonder if the real Rex mysteries are
being able to apply the "laws" of the clan to larger bodies? I wonder
what large Ernaldan (or former Ernalda-analogue-dominated) areas do
instead though (Holay, Esrola, old school Rinliddi?, Darsen?)
--
John Machin
"Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.