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    Constitutional Monarchy

    Okay JudgeRightly, let's look at this a slightly different way... Let's say that a king publicly renounces the Constitution and abdicates the throne and a judge certifies the vacancy and initiate the succession process. Who is sovereign? The judge is making a determination. The judge is...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    I just cannot understand how you can find so much to say on a point we've belabored for months. I am addressing the point specifically and directly. Your objection is the equivalent to objecting to such a law on the basis that it is a law. Of course it produces a permanent means to remove the...
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    Spontaneous Appearance of Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, David Snoke

    I'm not sure you've posted enough of the author's argument to fully evaluate his position. My difficulty with treating information as a purely physical property is that information is never simply "matter arranged in a particular way." Information exists only insofar as distinct states are...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    I do not make bald assertions! First of all, we've been discussing this for months - years! Secondly, and far more importantly, I explained why it wasn't relevant. There is way whatsoever that it was appropriate to say such thing to me. If you disagree with the argument I've made then refute the...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    The fact that the provision in the law is permanently there is COMPLETELY NOT RELEVANT!!!! Every provision in the law is permanent! Including the one you are defending that allows a tyrant to reign unchecked for decades and potentially for generations. The fact that you are willing to tolerate...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    I keep trying to boil this down to what I think is our core disagreement. Under the proposed system as written, there is no earthly safeguard against a king who openly violates the Constitution for thirty years, perhaps longer, and produces an heir who is equally tyrannical, and so on for...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    Okay, so I fed as much as I could of Bob's material into, and had some lengthy discussion with, ChatGPT on the subject of a Code of Use and then had it produce a Code of Use that it thought Bob would likely have approved of. Let me know what you think of this result... America's Code of Use...
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    Honest struggles on God’s omniscience.

    The point is that this is not an argument! Precedent can be wrong - and often is! Not in the classical sense of the term. It isn't "Open Theism" that "infers" this. The bible teaches it explicitly. Open Theism simply acknowledges the biblical teaching. In no case is it an "inference". Not...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    Alright, well then I had the constitution and criminal codes already. I was just thinking that the criminal code was longer than what I had and I didn't have a code of use at all, which makes sense if he never wrote it.
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    @JudgeRightly, If you have it, could you post the full text of the proposed constitution, the criminal code and the code of use and whatever other original documents you've got that are relevant to this discussion?
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    No, you don't get to take home the whole basket because I decided to stop arguing over your use of terminology. Even with my modification, it is still a constitutional monarchy, who's king is the sovereign of the nation so long as he doesn't abdicate that authority by ignoring the law that...
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    Honest struggles on God’s omniscience.

    It's interesting that I didn't even bother to read the passages he cited. They don't teach omni-anything, in the classical meaning of the terms.
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    Honest struggles on God’s omniscience.

    A near perfect definition of an appeal to tradition fallacy. It is not an inference or an implication. We state it outright that God does not know the future in any sense similar to what Classical Christian dogma teaches. We do not state that because we pull it out of the clear blue sky but...
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    Constitutional Monarchy

    So be it. The king is not the final authority. That is, when he has chosen egregiously violate the law that placed him in his place of authority in the first place, then the law has provision to remove him from that place of authority.
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    The continued policing problem in America.

    You missed the point, but I am gratified that you were honest enough to kind of sort of concede the point. You did it like some sort of idiot lawyer, as if anyone here was suggesting that no law is ever broken in any place that isn't run by a democrat, which is silly, but you've gone much...
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