On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > I'm not going to replay the Protestant Reformation on a governance > mailing list. The Constititon is written in plain English; we don't
No, IT ISN'T WRITTEN IN PLAIN ENGLISH. The plain English version was rejected very early on as not being formal enough. How many times have you heard a normal person say "shall be admitted"? Please get that plain English idea out of your mind. The document is written as formal corporate bylaws, and occasionally you might need a corporate lawyer (or someone who spends far too much time with corporate lawyers) to explain the corner cases. I suspect that both Simon and I (and probably Al as well) have far too much experience with corporate lawyers, and thus it wouldn't occur to us that the clause would be misunderstood to mean anything other than the bootstrap finale. Fortunately, most of the corners are in the past and the normal day-to-day process of how the constitution works is pretty clear. I hope. If not, then there is no harm in asking. ....Roy
