On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:58 AM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we wouldn't say that he had > gained the privilege of driving his car; nor would we in the more > bizarre situation that he became allowed to do it but remained unable > to.
What if the teenager got eir driver's license by couldn't find eir keys. E'd have the privilege of driving eir car (e MAY drive it), but not the mechanism for doing so (e CANNOT drive it as it won't start). Of course, R2148 says a foreign nomic "may" grant powers and privileges. It doesn't provide a mechanism for granting them, so precedent indicates that no such machanism can be assumed to exist.
