I love using the Batman to help explain a concept that seems to be giving a lot of patriots a hard time. The all capital letter name, the person. Is it a fiction, a corporation, or a trust? Can i capture it? Tame it? use it in commerce?
The answer is right in front of you.
The person is a wo/man with a status. The status attaches to the living man thru domicile of origin.
The birth certificate is the creation of the person only in the fact that it is showing evidence of the status attaching to you.
Think of Bruce Wayne as the living man, and Batman as his status, thus together they form a person.
All law deals with the "person" and no law deals with the living wo/man, persons are always found in societies and living wo/man in nature. when living wo/man enters society, s/he acquires a status, which is the applications of a legal personality, something capable of legal rights and obligations.
Why is a fetus not a person? Because it can not have any legal rights or obligations attached to it as it is not a member of society yet.
I'm not sure your Batman idea works very well. Bruce can put on and take of the costume as he wishes. Can we change our status as easily? You have obviously researched this status thing more than I have. Can you shorten my research time by pointing me to info. on status you have used?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely we can change it easily, however it is a one time thing. You can not go back and forth.
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