OK. Let's clear a few things up:
1. The ALI has no formal authority whatsoever. They merely make proposals. While influential, their proposals have no effect until adopted by a state legislature.
2. The MPC is an ALI proposal. It has hardly been adopted in every state. And the states that do adopt it often change it in the process.
3. Paralegals are not lawyers. Shocking, right? They are legally prohibited from practicing law. And while they can be trained to perform many functions, in practice, they are little more than secretaries with a fancy title and should not be giving (much less relied upon) for substantive advice.
is the biggest tool to hit this site in a while! I've gotten more than a couple of chuckles reading through his "down-the-rabbit-hole" legal analyses! “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
His advice ranges from naive to completely wrong. His quoting of arcane 'precedent' might actually convince some of our brethren to listen to him, which could be very dangerous.
In short, I would never trust a word the guy says.
I find his discussion of the often-employed Guarantee Clause quite informative.
It's one thing to go sprouting "sovereign citizen crap" wearing your aluminum foil hat, but claiming to give legitimate legal advice here is insane.
TER need to have this moderated by someone with a real legal education.
the Louisiana Purchase. Those are the kinds of secrets they teach in paralegal school and are only shared by a select few.