Time: Mon Nov 04 07:59:21 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 07:57:20 -0800 To: libertylaw@www.ultimate.org From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: LLAW: Congress adjourns SINE DIE ======================================================================= LIBERTY LAW - CROSS THE BAR & MAKE YOUR PLEA - FIRST VIRTUAL COURT, USA Presiding JOP: Tom Clark, Constable: Robert Happy, Clerk: Kerry Rushing ======================================================================= One working hypothesis is that they intend to re-convene before the Electoral College votes in December, in order to commence impeachment proceedings against the President. /s/ Paul Mitchell At 06:45 AM 11/4/96 -0800, you wrote: >======================================================================= >LIBERTY LAW - CROSS THE BAR & MAKE YOUR PLEA - FIRST VIRTUAL COURT, USA >Presiding JOP: Tom Clark, Constable: Robert Happy, Clerk: Kerry Rushing >======================================================================= >At 01:18 PM 11/1/96 U, you wrote: >>Evidently the 104th Congress adjourned "sine die" this month. >>Now, if anyone out there is like me, they're wondering just >>what "sine die" means and why it is significant. The >>significance arises when we take a look at history and >>discover that the last (and most recent) time that this was >>done was just before the Civil War after which Lincoln >>declared war without a sitting Congress. > >I am well aware of what "sine die" is, but I thought Congress >always adjourns sine die, ever since 1861. Am I wrong >here? Is this actually the FIRST TIME since 1861 that they >adjourned sine die, or do they do this every year? If its every >year that would not be significant, if it IS the first time since 1861, >that would be amazing! > >Robert Happy > > ==================================================================== [Text is usually formatted in Courier 11 non-proportional spacing @] [65-characters per line; .DOCs by MS-WORD for MS-DOS, Version 5.0B.] Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S., email address: pmitch@primenet.com ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776, Tucson, Arizona state [We win] We can decode all your byte streams, spaghetti code notwithstanding. Coming soon: "Manifesto for a Republic" by John E. Trumane ie JetMan ====================================================================
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