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"without worrying about a judge taking that away from them" Unfortunately the ultimate arbiter of the courts' authority is not a piece of code or a piece of pa
by peterbonney 10y ago
"without worrying about a judge taking that away from them"
Unfortunately the ultimate arbiter of the courts' authority is not a piece of code or a piece of paper, but the courts themselves. If someone disputes the authority of a contract (smart or otherwise) that dispute will ultimately be settled in court. Even if the contract contains language claiming that it is not open to interpretation by a certain court or set of courts, the validity of THAT language will ultimately be interpreted by... a court.
There is no degree of technical cleverness that can supersede the authority of a sovereign entity. You can hide things from a sovereign, move things out of the reach of a sovereign, but you can never overrule a sovereign's authority within its own borders.