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Gaslighted's avatar

The town zoning approval hypothesis is not the equivalent. The homeowner is using his own money. These grifters are use Taxpayer money, which is supposed to be used for highway maintenance for the public’s use. If the governess wants to impose tolls and abuse the citizens of the formerly great state of New York, that’s its prerogative. The control of the public highways goes back to England, which is still the foundation of the government control of the public highways. Only the king can impede the use of the public highways. Long Live the King.

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Marilynne Martin's avatar

I'm sorry you didn't hear the news. It came out on July 4, 1776. The people booted the King. They rejected royalty rule.

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Gaslighted's avatar

Indeed, but the United States was not established until the war was won and the Constitution adopted in 1787. Our jurisprudence is based on English common law. That Common Law still applies where no legislature has made a law that changes it. The States and Federal Government have inherited the king's sovereignty. Very simply this is why I can't control who uses the roads and you can't either. And this is why the state can issue driver's licenses and a town or village or city cannot, except where the sovereign, the state, gives them the authority, like requiring a taxi to have a license. Another example of the common law still in play occurs here in New York: a couple of Towns on Long Island, established well before the Revolution, were granted the rights to offshore lands and when the State has tried to assert its control over those beds, it has lost because the king granted those rights and they cannot be taken away. So here, the Towns regularly tell the State to pound their own sand.

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