Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: So this, then, must be legal?

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:01:50PM -0400, Wonko wrote:
> Quoth Rob Speer,
> 
> > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:30:59PM -0400, Wonko wrote:
> >> Quoth Jonathan David Amery,
> >> 
> >>>> It's part of the rules for me. The rules say I must abide by my club's
> >>>> charter.
> >>>> 
> >>> But they don't say that the club charter empowers you to take
> >>> otherwise illegal actions with the rest of the gamestate.
> >> 
> >> But it's not an illegal action - nowhere do the rules forbid it entirely.
> > 
> > The Gremlin Fund is a part of the gamestate, so the default case
> > applies.
> 
> But the default case defers to all other rules, and the Charter Prop rule
> puts me within the Jurisdiction of the LOOP Charter, superceding the Default
> Case's restrictions.

If that's the case, then Charters are far too powerful, and should
require 2/3 of the votes to be created, not 1/3. Or better yet, not
exist at all, since members of the club can change the Charter in such a
way that they can change the gamestate at will.
-- 
Rob Speer