Suggested Answers to the First Short Quiz

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SUGGESTED BINGE WATCHING – FICTIONAL DRAMA ON THE EAST GERMAN STASI

One of Yours Truly’s character flaws is that he adores Whodunnits, especially the zillions of different TV series produced by MHz Choice set in various European cities and featuring English subtitles so that you can brush up on your foreign languages.

Second confession???

Binge watching for the first time ever!!!

The Weissensee Saga is a “Romeo and Juliet” series featuring two East German families 1980-1990, one of which is high-echelon Stasi (the East German counterpart to the Soviet Union’s KGB).

Though you wouldn’t believe the machinations and corruption as the 3 Stasi (father and 2 sons) both threaten, and cover up for, each other and the rest of their extended family, while they also both threaten, and cover up for, the two-member dissident family.

[Stasi, Sr., is the long-time lover of the dissident mother and Black-Sheep Stasi Son becomes the lover of dissident daughter without knowing about the senior relationship.]

Yours truly prides himself in being cynical (which he calls “realism”), but even he was shocked!!! Even though all of the shocking events are entirely believable!!! Especially the reactions of every ordinary citizen when suddenly confronted with evidence gathered while s/he was unexpectedly surveilled, usually vis-à-vis contact with an investigation target!!! Because, of course, s/he knows that s/he is about to be blackmailed with a long-term prison sentence unless s/he becomes a Stasi informer!!! Whether or not s/he knew anything about the objectionable activities of the target!!!

Direct TV is currently (4/28/2017) half-way through the existing 18 episodes (a fourth season is scheduled to begin soon).

But you can start at the beginning and binge-watch all 18 episodes for free!!!

In other words, do NOT order from Amazon.com the DVD’s for each of the first 3 seasons for $22 each.

INSTEAD, sign up for a 7-day free trial for MHz Choice on Amazon.com AND you can binge-watch all 18 episodes AND THEN CANCEL BEFORE the $7.99/month charge kicks in.

JSK - 4/28/2017
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Suggested Answers to the First Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the First Short Quiz
Obsolete Law - Civil Disobedience - Authoritarian Rule


Question 1

Was Yours Truly a “Guinea Pig” during his first year of law school?

Answer 1

Please see Q&A-2.

Question 2

Did the Civil Rights Movement prompt Harvard Law School for the first time to treat two of the four sections of the entering first-year class during the Fall of 1964 as “Guinea Pigs” by substituting for Agency Law in the long-standing prescribed first-year curriculum (which also included Torts, Contracts, Property, Civil Procedure, etc.) a brand-new experimental course entitled “Development of Law and Legal Institutions”?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

Did “DLI” as it was known, focus first on obsolete law?

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Was Exhibit A the Los Angeles criminal ordinance which was still on the books in 1964 from the “horse and buggy days” that if you are driving a “horseless carriage” (car, truck, etc.), you must be preceded by a servant on foot who is ringing a bell warning of your approach and, if at night, the servant must also be bearing a lantern?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Since most political jurisdictions have no mechanism for identifying obsolete laws and revoking them, is this Los Angeles criminal ordinance still on the books?

Answer 5

Who knows??? (Presumably!!!)

Question 6

Are such obsolete laws occasionally (or perhaps even often) used by politicians to persecute opponents and groups of which they disapprove?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Did “DLI” then focus on Civil Disobedience?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

Was Exhibit A for Civil Disobedience the then-long-forgotten “Dorr Rebellion”?

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Was one of the original 13 American States the former English Colony of “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” (hereinafter “RI&PP”?

Answer 9

Yes.

Question 10

Did the 1663 Royal Charter creating RI&PP provide that the English Monarch would appoint a Royal Governor and that the Royal Governor would appoint from among the general population individuals to serve in a Royal Legislature?

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

After the American Revolution (1765-1783) succeeded, did RI&PP continue to operate under the 1663 Royal Charter with the sole modification that the legislature appointed by the Governor would, going forward, elect the Governor, but the Governor would continue to appoint the members of the legislature -- with no popular elections for anything?

Answer 11

Yes.

Question 12

Did this state-of-affairs continue until John Dorr’s Rebellion (1841-1842)?

Answer 12

Yes.

Question 13

During the short period leading up to Dorr’s Rebellion, did John Dorr and his associates petition what we will call, for ease of identification, the Royal Governor and the Royal Legislature, to hold a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of drafting a “democratic” constitution that would be subject to ratification by a popular election?

Answer 13

Yes.

Question 14

As a footnote, should it be noted that these questions are based on Harvard Law School’s 1964 version of Dorr’s Rebellion? And that current-day politically-correct history revisionists describe Dorr’s rebellion as an attempt by “middle class landowners” (rather than “democratic” forces) to take over the Rhode Island government -- conveniently ignoring the fact that all “democratic” governments of that day not only required citizenship to vote (which several modern-day court decisions no longer require) but also limited the franchise to male landowners?

Answer 14

Yes. Yes.

Question 15

Did the Royal Governor and Royal Legislature tell John Dorr to get lost?

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

Did John Dorr then issue a public call for an Unofficial Constitutional Convention that proceeded to meet and propose a democratic constitution?

Answer 16

Yes.

Question 17

Did John Dorr and his associates then petition the Royal Governor and the Royal Legislature to hold a general election to decide whether to adopt their constitution?

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

Did the Royal Governor and Royal Legislature tell John Dorr to get lost?

Answer 18

Yes.

Question 19

However, now in “full panic mode” did the Royal Governor and Royal Legislature quickly draft an Official Constitution for approval in a popular election that did little more than remove the word “Royal” from the 1663 Royal Charter wherever it appeared?

Answer 19

Yes.

Question 20

At the Official Election was the Official Constitution resoundingly defeated?

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 21

At an Unofficial Election a week later, was the Dorr Constitution overwhelmingly approved?

Answer 21

Yes.

Question 22

At the Unofficial Election in which candidates ran for the to-be-created offices, was John Dorr overwhelmingly elected Governor and were his associates overwhelmingly elected as the members of the legislature?

Answer 22

Yes.

Question 23

Did John Dorr and his associates then petition the Royal Governor and the Royal Legislature to vacate their governmental premises?

Answer 23

Yes.

Question 24

Did the Royal Governor and the Royal Legislature tell John Dorr and his associates to get lost? That their election was unofficial so they were mere trespassers and would they please vacate the premises?

Answer 24

Yes. Yes.

Question 25

Did John Dorr and his associates then plan an armed rebellion against the Royal Governor and the Royal Legislature?

Answer 25

Yes.

Question 26

However, did they as a precaution think it prudent to capture the State Armory as a first step?

Answer 26

Yes.

Question 27

Did U.S. President John Tyler promise Federal Troops to protect the Royal Governor and the Royal Legislature?

Answer 27

Yes.

Question 28

Were 2,000 armed men to support John Dorr promised by Tammany Hall (the legendary NYC federation of labor unions whose headquarters was located on 17th Street half a block east of the plaza where Park Avenue and Broadway cross paths as both head south, as a result of which the plaza is still called “Union Square” to this day)?

Answer 28

Yes.

Question 29

Was U.S. President John Tyler’s promise controversial because Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution provides: “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.”?

Answer 29

Yes.

Question 30

After all, wouldn’t President Tyler’s action, if successful, guarantee Rhode Island a ROYAL NON-DEMOCRATIC form of government?

Answer 30

Yes.

Question 31

And wasn’t the “domestic violence” that he was seeking to quell, aimed at toppling Rhode Island’s Royal Governor and Royal Legislature?

Answer 31

Yes.

Question 32

On that fateful day in 1842 when the attack on the Rhode Island State Armory was scheduled to occur, had both President Tyler’s Federal Troops and Tammany Hall’s 2,000 armed men failed to materialize?

Answer 32

Yes.

Question 33

Were all of the wives and sweethearts of John Dorr and the members of his armed force left at home weeping and wailing that the rebellion might fail and their men might then be executed as traitors?

Answer 33

Yes.

Question 34

Did John Dorr fail to appear on the bluff overlooking the armory where his troops were assembled for reasons that were not explained in our DLI materials?

Answer 34

Yes.

Question 35

Without John Dorr to fire the first cannon, did his armed rebellion fizzle?

Answer 35

Yes.

Question 36

Did John Dorr immediately flee to New Hampshire where he knew that his good friend, the New Hampshire Governor, would refuse extradition to Rhode Island for prosecution as a traitor?

Answer 36

Yes.

Question 37

Did the Royal Governor and Royal Legislature, now realizing that they were once again perched on a powder keg, hold a new Constitutional Convention that, in effect, proposed a document identical to the Dorr Constitution that had been unofficially ratified by the unofficial election?

Answer 37

Yes.

Question 38

Was the new Constitutional proposal then overwhelmingly approved at an official election?

Answer 38

Yes.

Question 39

Did John Dorr then return to Rhode Island to a tumultuous reception?

Answer 39

Yes.

Question 40

HOWEVER, were the Royal Governor and Royal Legislature still in office until a new election could be organized to elect a Democratic Governor and Democratic Legislature?

Answer 40

Yes.

Question 41

So did the Royal Governor interrupt John Dorr’s tumultuous reception to arrest him for treason?

Answer 41

Yes.

Question 42

Was John Dorr then prosecuted for, and convicted of, treason against Rhode Island’s Royal Government?

Answer 42

Yes.

Question 43

Once more realizing that he was perched on a powder keg, did the Royal Governor try to pardon John Dorr?

Answer 43

Yes.

Question 44

Did John Dorr refuse the pardon on the grounds that accepting a pardon would constitute an admission of guilt for which he was being forgiven?

Answer 44

Yes.

Question 45

As their last official act, did the Royal Legislature and Royal Governor pass a law that provided that John Dorr had NOT been guilty of treason?

Answer 45

Yes.

Question 46

Did our DLI course teach the BGO (“Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious”) that leaders of all Civil Disobedience (whether armed revolution or merely a rally for which a permit has not been granted) have to be prepared for whatever consequences, including criminal penalties, might be imposed for failure?

Answer 46

Yes.

Question 47

And did our DLI course teach the BGO that just because your political cause fails and you are criminally prosecuted and convicted -- does NOT mean that your political cause was NOT just?

Answer 47

Yes.



QUESTION FOR THE SECOND AND THIRD SHORT QUIZZES --

Is there a difference between the Civil Disobedience of John Dorr, the Civil Rights Movement and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in her War Against President Obama, on the one hand -- and on the other hand, the criminal “leaking” of classified information by our Intelligence Services to eliminate from our Democratic Government whomever displeases them?

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