Yeah, I've heard the theory, but if that's what Congress intended, it would have said so somewhere in the legislation, at least in the enacting clauses. You can't hide elephants in mouse holes.
I've been prone to teasing convoluted meanings out of WSFS rules myself, and have been called to order on it. I have consequently been trying to persuade those people submitting rules changes to include declarations of legislative intent in their proposals. For example, "Moved, to change the WSFS Constitution to [general statement of intent] by [type of change] as follows:" with the actual technical change in the text of the constitutional amendment. While not perfect, it gives us some guidance down the road in trying to interpret rules when it turns out that the technical wording doesn't perfectly match up with the real world.
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Date: 2015-06-27 03:15 pm (UTC)I've been prone to teasing convoluted meanings out of WSFS rules myself, and have been called to order on it. I have consequently been trying to persuade those people submitting rules changes to include declarations of legislative intent in their proposals. For example, "Moved, to change the WSFS Constitution to [general statement of intent] by [type of change] as follows:" with the actual technical change in the text of the constitutional amendment. While not perfect, it gives us some guidance down the road in trying to interpret rules when it turns out that the technical wording doesn't perfectly match up with the real world.