One tiny bit of sermonizing not aimed at anyone in particular: Interested amateurs tend to study the wording of laws. Lawyers tend to study case law, actual cases and their outcomes. In part that's because, besides the hazards of interpretation, laws often conflict, supercede each other, modify each other, have unexpressed limits particularly regarding jurisdiction and other matters of process and applicability, etc etc etc and that all tends to come out and get defined in the case law. And case law tends to be dispositive, /stare decisis/ and all that, precedents. And if that paragraph bored the crap out of you then good luck guessing at what a few thousand pages of case law on a topic will do to you. TBH some of this is like watching someone try to set up a router using only the marketing brochures. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*