OscarMeyr wrote:
That is, in part, the idea. Saying "Zefram is an avocado" -- or passing a proposal establishing "Goethe is a banana" -- or transferring elements of a Rules-defined private property to France -- does not automatically make it so.
But it might make it "so" in the interpretation of a body of law. No contradiction: classifying ketchup as a vegetable does not change a botanical designation but does change the way certain statutes are
applied to school lunches. Remember: Pigs is pigs. (http://www.ellisparkerbutler.info/epb/pigsispigs_html.asp) -G.
