See Falsifian's J.N. thesis. [1] It considers this issue very
thoroughly, and given the context (written by a judge about the
hypothetical disposition of judicial cases assigned to em under
hypothetical circumstances) is effectively a precedent. The TL;DR
version is that ratification does in fact create a retroactive legal
fiction.

[1] 
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-June/040456.html


-Aris

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 2:02 PM Alexis Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ratification doesn't retroactively adjust the game state, which can cause 
> references to history to get weird. If memory serves, the precedent is that 
> ratification does not paper over history with legal fictions. There's 
> probably a scam there to be honest.
>
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 16:56, Aris Merchant 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> -Aris
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 1:48 PM Alexis Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> From the peanut gallery, I don't think ratification is the right approach 
>>> here. Creation of a legal fiction would be better.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 14:03, Aris Merchant 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I intend to ratify without objection the following ~~~-delimited
>>>> document (see further the notes at the bottom of this message):
>>>> ~~~
>>>> Effective date: Dec 14 00:15:01 UTC 2019
>>>>
>>>> At Dec 14 00:15:00 UTC 2019, the fora agora-official and
>>>> agora-business became discussion fora.
>>>> ~~~
>>>>
>>>> I intend to ratify without objection the following ~~~-delimited
>>>> document (see further the notes at the bottom of this message):
>>>> ~~~
>>>> Effective date: Dec 28 01:45:01 UTC 2019
>>>>
>>>> At Dec 28 01:45:00 UTC 2019, the fora agora-official and
>>>> agora-business became public fora.
>>>> ~~~
>>>>
>>>> I pledge not to ratify either of those documents without ratifying the
>>>> other one. I note that the documents above are technically incorrect,
>>>> but that ratifying them would reduce ambiguity about what messages
>>>> failed to be public under CFJ 1905.
>>>>
>>>> -Aris
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