> Whoa, whoa, whoa - reread and think that through. You want private citizens and organizations to guess what the laws are supposed to read like and act accordi

> Whoa, whoa, whoa - reread and think that through. You want private citizens and organizations to guess what the laws are supposed to read like and act accordingly? You want them to guess what lawmakers were aware of in the laws they wrote? Wow. This is commonly referred to as the "spirit" of the law and would seem to me to be an integral part of "Common Law" systems where the "spirit" may often be clarified by the building up of case law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law