The idea of a skew between "when the presidency officially starts" versus "when the new president is sworn in so that they will be allowed to exercise the duties of office" reminds me of the distinction occasionally made in Vedic astrology between different elements of the birth time: crowning for fire, full exit for earth, first breath for air, and umbilical severance for water.
https://shrifreedom.org/ayurveda-2/birth-time/
(Did I already post about that?)
Also, apparently the 20th Amendment only specifies that the old presidency ends at noon, not that that's when the new presidency begins.
I suppose it's possible, to a limited extent, to elect what "noon" means by moving the capital around, or changing the time adjustment. It's not like the Constitution specifies how noon is computed or where geographically it's judged. Really, the only thing stopping you from repeatedly moving the official capital across various territories around the world and adjusting the date line around it, or repeatedly changing the calendar itself, is the Supreme Court and the common sense of the people. If you built and claimed an artificial island at the North Pole, you could move the capital there and propel the capital around on treads to gain or lose many days per day, or run it straight through the North Pole and cause the concept of "noon" or even "January" to break down entirely. Or try to find an ambiguity relating to the Earth's axial wobble (like the difficulties in defining the lunar node) and weave the capital in between different definitions of the axis. These concepts are all constructions; and it might seem like some constructions are deeper-rooted and harder to disrupt, but that's only really true if you've done a thorough security analysis and closed all the cost-effectively exploitable loopholes in the definition ... sorry, I don't know why I feel the need to go on about this.
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Re: The Orange Monk
Date: 2025-01-20 09:04 pm (UTC)https://shrifreedom.org/ayurveda-2/birth-time/
(Did I already post about that?)
Also, apparently the 20th Amendment only specifies that the old presidency ends at noon, not that that's when the new presidency begins.
I suppose it's possible, to a limited extent, to elect what "noon" means by moving the capital around, or changing the time adjustment. It's not like the Constitution specifies how noon is computed or where geographically it's judged. Really, the only thing stopping you from repeatedly moving the official capital across various territories around the world and adjusting the date line around it, or repeatedly changing the calendar itself, is the Supreme Court and the common sense of the people. If you built and claimed an artificial island at the North Pole, you could move the capital there and propel the capital around on treads to gain or lose many days per day, or run it straight through the North Pole and cause the concept of "noon" or even "January" to break down entirely. Or try to find an ambiguity relating to the Earth's axial wobble (like the difficulties in defining the lunar node) and weave the capital in between different definitions of the axis. These concepts are all constructions; and it might seem like some constructions are deeper-rooted and harder to disrupt, but that's only really true if you've done a thorough security analysis and closed all the cost-effectively exploitable loopholes in the definition ... sorry, I don't know why I feel the need to go on about this.