• jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 days ago

    Yup. We can’t rely on “Well, OK, there’s no law about this, it’s just how we’ve always done things.”

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      Interestingly, in my high school course about legal systems, “tradition” was considered like a very low level law. Basically if “this is how we’ve always done things” and there’s no explicit law, executive order or anything… it’s legal