At 01:26 PM 6/20/2006, Werner Engelmaier wrote:
>Hi Rudy,
>I fully understood what you were saying; but perhaps I did not make myself
>clear enough.
>Most of continental Europe's law systems are based on Roman Law, not British
>Law. The basic European attitutude is: "Laws are there to be broken!"—it is
>much more cynical vis-a-vis the written law, based on people's experiences 
>with
>a whole slew of monarchs and dictators of various stripes promulgating 
>laws as
>it suited them [you do not have to go anywhere near as to what happened to
>'laws' in Nazi-Germany]. It is interesting that the British did not 
>develop this
>attitude—their monarchs were not any better.

beg to differ a wee bit on the last point...

ever hear of the Magna Carta?  Bounded the English monarchy to degree, laid 
the basis for recognition of  individual liberties, and arguably started 
the drift toward Enlightenment/Lockian thought that resulted in the US 
Declaration of Independence.  But, I'm no historian, so no matter. In any 
case, I doubt my progenitors (McLean of Duart) ever enthusiastically 
recognized any British monarch as a legitimate authority.

and now I'll hudg' my tongue,
dw



>Werner
>
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