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Default Re: Civil Protection Ordinance

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Originally Posted by TheHighChild View Post
This always makes me crap my pants laughing.

How about instead of your elected officials writing law after law after law out of ambiguous language, they write a few laws with clear and definite language.

Judges are here to interpret the law. They don't write it, your elected officials do. How about demanding some responsibility from them instead?
You answered your own question. If lawyers made the law clear and definitive, then there would be nothing for the lawyers to interpret, hence in doing so they'd be putting themselves out of a job.

(Putting on fire suit for the potential flame mail coming from the lawyers on this board )
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