Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:18:16 -0700 From: rsrchsoc@IONET.NET (John Wilde) Subject: Re: [Fwd: Weapon Policy] Tempe To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
Don Cline wrote:
> I check no arms with Feudal Lords. However, your use of the term "Feudal Lords" is right on the mark. We threw feudalism out along with the British.
Just as a point of interest, feudal law was resserected in almost its entirety in the 1930's. We call it "administrative law". Administrative law is really a bastardized combination of the European Feudal and Ecclesiastical law (Church Cannon). Administrative law is the "procedural" mechanism that is used to enforce the "police powers" (the power to regulate) into effect. They make you feel guilty (ecclesiastical) about violating the lords commands (feudal).
Although we supposedly kicked it out of the federal system of law, there was nothing that prevented the states from adopting the various aspects of feudal and ecclesiastical law. It is here to stay unless our state constitutions are amended to limit the system of law in the same way the U.S. Constitution was supposed to have limited it to Law, Equity and Admiralty.
g'day John Wilde