Crime Against Humanity: the Holy GAAP, 7
Every nation has its own sovereignty among the founding reasons for its birth, hopefully, and just as hopefully it retains it to the degree its politicians can’t sell it out to the highest bidder. In which case, good chunks of it get “delegated” to supranational entities aimed at centralising power more and more in less and less accountable hands.
This potentially makes for a separate study of the legal grounds of moneypulation for every nation, which then may or may not converge with those of other nations, according to the degree of “delegation” to such supranational centralised powers.
Law is famous for being written in a legalese jargon which is no less than legendary as to being cryptic, irksome and plainly unreadable. And if there’s a field where “Italians do it better”, this is it, at least according to their own opinion. Whether they’re right in boasting this leadership or people in other countries would be equally right in doing the same, I’ll take Italy as a case in point.
Actually, even legalese clouds do sometimes have a silver lining, as legalese even comes to our help in studying it. Those familiar with the absolute precision required in computer programming and in its logic know that if an output value depends on 1,946 input values, if even just one in those 1,946 inputs is missing or has an unexpected value, crash! Legalese must comply with such an absolute precision and logic, therefore, any legislative text must be unambiguously identified by a type, a date and a number, and must report in its preamble the same identifiers for all the previous laws it refers to. Thus, through the use of absolute and unflinching logic and diligence, applied to the connections between laws as well as to their contents and gaps, the riddle can be figured out. So let’s arm ourselves with these, plus a screwdriver and a magnifying glass, and let’s open the bonnet of the Italian version of the Holy GAAP.
By the way, I strongly suggest that you arm yourself with pen and paper, too; in your journey through the GAAP you will encounter a number of names, numbers, dates and relationships, so noting them down with boxes and lines will make your journey much more easy, clear, comfortable, and will spare you some useless and avoidable dizzy spell.
