Recent content by robeyw

To paraphrase fredrikklaw, "the concept that historical failure to enforce a law effects the ability to subsequently enforce them would reduce the entire legislative process and intent to nothing more than idle ceremony and window dressing." It seems to me that it is the failure to enforce the...

When I was in High School (about 1960) I remember a civics teacher talking about customary enforcement of laws. According to him, if a law is customarily ignored, the authorities cannot begin enforcing it without first giving notice and if it is enforced in one way, it cannot be enforced in a...