Re: Cants

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> Yes, well. The problem with presumptions is that they're often wrong :)
I didn't say it was an irrebuttable presumption (nice word, "irrebuttable",
I think).

> Naturalised citizens since 1994 haven't sworn an oath to the Queen or
> anything.  [...]
> Are they also presumed to be sworn to her too?
A deep question to which the solons of your land are probably content
to provide no answer.  Nevertheless, I feel confident that a naturalized
citizen could as well be convicted of treason as a native-born Aussie.

> And Australia is now able to send convicts to Britain
The world turned upside down indeed!  (This was the song played when
Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the American forces in 1783, ending the
American Revolution.)

> There's also a couple of problems with punishments: How
> am I meant to expel anyone from my dominion if there's nowhere outside of
> it?
A return to hanging, drawing, and quartering seems indicated.

> (But on this topic, I'm reminded of Prince Leonard of the Hutt River
> Principality in Western Australia; he didn't add a the first.)
One of the few micronations that doesn't exist in IB, and a good thing too.

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