From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If one Parliament cannot dictate to subsequent
>assemblages of the same body, then it follows that neither may
>any prior or present assemblage declaim the essence of the law
>which provides it the authority to assemble to begin with.
>Either the original law which provides for that power
>to operate is still intact, or your nation's power structure has
>been severely altered without your being assessed of it.
ET,
The present regime cannot have it both ways. Their authority derives
from the common law and they are not above the common law. And they cannot
pick and choose which parts of the common law they will obey. IMHO the game
is up as far as firearms legislation is concerned.
If rogue Crown servants act outside the prerogatives which the common law
confers on them they have no legitimate power and are individualy liable in
law for their actions. A current example of this is the situation with the
imposition of metrication in the UK. The legislation was defective and
individual trading standards officers will have to answer
to tradesmen whom they threatened to prosecute for their ultra vires
actions. And I understand that individual members of the Depatrment of Trade
and Industry are being sued by the manufacturers of metric scales which
cannot be sold. <g>.
This situation is not new. Bracton's constitutional work written some time
between 1235 and 1259, said: ".the law makes the King. Let the King
therefore bestow upon the law what the law bestows upon him, namely dominion
and power, for there is no King where will rules and not law."
The remedy is in Chapter 61 of the peace treaty known as Magna Carta. Sir
Robert Howard, a member of the Convention Parliament, and of the drafting
committee for the Declaration and Bill of Rights, said in Committee :
"The people have always had the same title to their liberties and properties
that England's kings have had unto their crowns. The several charters of
the people's rights, most particularly the Magna Carta were not grants from
the King, but recognition's by the King of rights that have been reserved or
that appertained unto us by common law and immemorial custom."
For more information see the Magna Carta Society web site.
Regards, John Hurst.
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