++ On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 at 17:26 Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If no one has objections, I'm going to try to get this into this > week's distribution. > > -Aris > -- > > Title: Power Creep Reduction Act > Author: Aris > Adoption index: 3.0 > > Amend Rule 217, "Interpreting the Rules", by changing the text "Definitions > in lower-powered Rules do not overrule common-sense interpretations or > common > definitions of terms in higher-powered rules." to read "Definitions in > lower-powered Rules do not overrule common-sense interpretations or common > definitions of terms in higher-powered rules, but may constructively make > reasonable clarifications to those definitions. For this purpose, a > clarification is reasonable if and only if it adds detail without changing > the > underlying general meaning of the term and without causing the higher > powered > rule to be read in a way inconsistent with its text." >