Michael wrote:
Nor is the fact that other rules regulate rule changes relevant,
for 101 trumps them.
What is the difference between changing rules, and changing
"deemings"?
I misspoke just now. You are correct. You don't have the right to
do what you wilt. But R101(i) grants you the privilege. The
privilege is limited for regulated things. Changing rules is
regulated. But the privilege still exists for unregulated deemings.
For anything unregulated, the privilege is like a right, and shall
not be abridged.
Maud wrote:
The rules use the term ``right'' without defining it (they only say
that persons may or may not possess them), and the term is frequently
used in legal contexts. But then rule 754 (3) requires us to
interpret it in the legal sense, so rights and powers are distinct.
The first legal definition I ran across was (M-W online):
"2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : the power
or privilege to which one is justly entitled <voting rights>
<his right to decide>"
So according to this definition, rights, privileges, and powers
are synonymous. We've differentiated rights from privileges,
but we haven't differentiated either from powers.
-G.
