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  • #31


    "mauvaise foi" - in the technical legal sense ?
    “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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    • #32
      no, more generally
      but the fact you pick up the legal sense also betrays you...

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      • #33
        more generally, the term can mean too much. how about a translation ?

        And there's nothing to betray, never was a secret....
        “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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        • #34
          it probably wasn't, but I didn't know anyway

          Mauvaise foi in general means that you know the truth of a matter but are willing and able to use and twist any arguments to proove the contrary. A communist leader defending Prague's coup for example...

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Sava
            There are a lot of conservatives that call the Marshall plan stupid...
            Really? Who?
            No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Maroule
              Mauvaise foi in general means that you know the truth of a matter but are willing and able to use and twist any arguments to proove the contrary.
              I rarely do that. Do you disagree with my view on the Marshal plan ?
              “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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              • #37
                The US is guilty of rebuilding europe.
                Long time member @ Apolyton
                Civilization player since the dawn of time

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                • #38
                  Verdict: Not guilty.
                  “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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