I miss the PNP. Also the President, that was fun. On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 13:49 Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 11:41 -0600, Reuben Staley wrote: > > You appear to be arguing for the e vs it distinction to be used to > > distinguish between persons, as defined by R869 and everything else. By > > this definition, Agora, not being capable of ideation on its own, does > not > > count as a person. > > The definition of "person" was somewhat different for many years. What > we currently call a "person" used to be a "first-class person". We had > "second-class persons" too, which were basically legal constructs which > we treated as though they were persons; for example, some contracts > used to be persons (and the text of the contract would specify how e > was capable of performing actions). They had several restrictions on > them, such as not having any voting power unless someone else donated > them voting power. > > That all got removed in a mass repeal some time ago, though, and we > decided to go back to having first-class persons as the only sort of > person. Arguably this was for the best, given some of the shenanigans > that second-class persons got up to. > > -- > ais523 >
