More seriously, I actually tend towards the civil law's style of resolving private affairs. It's just that I'm going into criminal law and am therefore profoundly uninterested in the topics that the Code covers.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
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We need stricter truck control laws!
- 15/07/2016 04:31:07 PM
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secretly everyone here loves moondog *NM*
- 15/07/2016 11:09:32 PM
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No no no!
- 18/07/2016 10:07:46 PM
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BEST. BASTILLE DAY. EVER!
- 18/07/2016 11:12:22 PM
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The French Revolution was one of the greatest catastrophes in history
- 21/07/2016 03:22:28 PM
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You know, I've been reading this book on Talleyrand...
- 22/07/2016 12:03:34 AM
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Re: You know, I've been reading this book on Talleyrand...
- 23/07/2016 03:54:25 AM
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I found Thomas Carlyle's book on the French Revolution quite interesting
- 23/07/2016 04:53:29 AM
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Yeah, that's definitely on the list of books on the subject to read. *NM*
- 23/07/2016 09:43:12 AM
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Wow. You really do live in an alternate universe - but in this case maybe one many Americans share.
- 23/07/2016 10:40:27 AM
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As someone who just took a final on matrimonial regimes, the Code Civil is NOT a net good.
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- 24/07/2016 03:24:35 AM
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- 24/07/2016 03:24:35 AM
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I'd be interested to hear more about that. What are the bad sides? *NM*
- 24/07/2016 06:35:06 PM
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I have to learn it and I hate it.
- 27/07/2016 11:35:02 PM
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- 27/07/2016 11:35:02 PM
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I'm not defending a depraved mob and conquest-hungry military dictatorship
- 25/07/2016 02:58:13 PM
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And I'm not comparing the French and American Revolutions, as such. Just noting that...
- 25/07/2016 06:57:17 PM
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The American revolution did virtually all of that first and without the Reign of Terror. *NM*
- 25/07/2016 06:40:09 PM
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Yes, because the Americans rebelled against someone four thousand miles away.
- 25/07/2016 07:00:20 PM
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Distance was an issue but who lead them was a major factor as well
- 26/07/2016 05:41:13 PM
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Was the UK civil wars of the 17th century really that great in comparison to the French chaos of the
- 23/07/2016 11:24:21 AM
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