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Re: Adam Starr by Dennis.Blewitt 15 March 2002 04:37 UTC |
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There are basically three legal systems, common law, civil law and secular, as far as structure is concerned. Russia, USSR, commonwealth had a civil-Napoleonic system since Cathryn. Only the players changed. There are many variations, but they all function alike. An analysis must be done then in terms of power. Structure influences behavior and the distribution and exercise of power. The multinationals have the power currently to define and impliment the structure and the concensus of the transnationals is that a codified system is most efficient and best for them. There need be no consensus, only the power to make and impliment decrees. With such a system, there is power to dictate economics, trade, slavery, distribution of wealth and resources. International law is becoming irrelevant with the power concentration that presently exists. The superpower defines the international law. It claims to be spreading democracy, but is instead exporting something else. The most extreme form of Napoleonic civil law is martial law. International law is a series of contracts, which can be abrogated by the powerful, but has the potential to usurp constitutional power of governments and their constituents or citizens. The only curb on this power is not with international tribunals, but with the courts of particular nations that have the ability to declare such agreements unconstitutional. Otherwise, the power must be curbed by the conflict generated by local or regional interests.
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