On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Ed Murphy wrote: > scshunt wrote: > > > On 11-03-19 02:57 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> The Speaker CAN, by announcement, cause the President to take > >> an action that is not otherwise IMPOSSIBLE. If there is no > >> Speaker, then the player who was most recently Speaker (if > >> any) CAN, by announcement, cause the President to take an action > >> that it SHALL take. > > > > Why does the IMPOSSIBLE restriction apply only to the first sentence? > > The President being required to do impossible actions seems rare enough > not to worry about it until a specific example comes up. (The "any > first-class player" clause doesn't include the IMPOSSIBLE bit either.)
The purpose of the IMPOSSIBLE is that, without it, the CAN means that the Speaker can supersede any CANNOT of lower precedence. -G.
