Can you shed some light on something I've been wondering about? And it could possibly be relevant in this GSE fiasco, indeed. I've heard or read that before being accepted into the BAR Association, one has to take something like oath, or swear that he will never tell anyone about various things that the BAR Association keeps secret from everyone. These things supposedly include stuff like how the US basically went into bankruptcy back in the 1930s, and as terms of the bailout it received from bankers, all legal proceedings in the US since then occur under the auspices of debt court, or debt law, and not common law. I might be wording that wrongly, but I have always wondered if it's true that anyone who's a member of the BAR association is working together, judges and lawyers, with a wink and a nod in this somehow alternate legal regime that they have sworn to never reveal to the public, and not the legal regime the nation was founded upon. I am totally fascinated by the apparent and sometimes seemingly obvious legal "disconnectedness" from Common Law in this country. I'm also fascinated by idea of the corporation aspect of the US, and by the supposed two legal entities embodied in any one individual; the natural man and the corporate entity. 1) can you tell me what you know about that secret BAR association oath? And why hasn't anyone ever betrayed that oath? Got any interesting links? 2) how does one go about studying law outside of the BAR association's version of it? What sources or books would one read? Got any links? Thanks a ton. I enjoy your posts a lot!
