It all reminds me of the famously disputed meaning of the word “is”. In modern law anything can mean anything. It’s easy, just ask John Roberts or John Edwards. We mistake these robed tyrants for deep thinkers, some of them, anyway, or cumulatively, depending on our political outlook, all of them. But they turn out to be sophists, spinners of words from “is” to the “the”.
Yep.
And without a common understanding of the simple meaning of words, the basis for law is destroyed.
And the inevitable result of abandoning that basis is chaos, tyranny, and destruction.
The Soviet Union is a perfect example of how that works.