Yapa

Book 7 – The Second Law

1	This be the Law of Treaty:
2	Treaty be the sacred agreement between communities;
3	Treaty be the sacred oath between people;
4	Treaty be recognition and honor between communities.
5	Before a treaty be agreed, the elders of a community must form a proper council.
6	If the council be not the whole community,
7	Then it be a false council.
8	A proper council then appoint an emissary,
9	Granted then a proper seal of office and authority.
10	If an emissary promise more than the proper council permits,
11	Then it be not a proper treaty.
12	Each emissary of each community meet and agree on treaty.
13	A sacred object be commissioned for each community
14	To represent and reflect the treaty.
15	Each emissary returns with the sacred object as treaty.
16	A treaty not formed by law, be not a treaty.
17	A treaty not be law if it seeks Rights not permitted to be treated:
18	Rights of Country remain with Country;
19	Rights of Sanctuary remain with Sanctuary;
20	Rights of Community remain with Community;
21	Rights of Moiety remain with Skin;
22	Rights of Office remain with Office;
23	Any treaty of false claims of rights, be not a treaty.
24	A people who respect nothing of sacred treaty,
25	Have no culture or law.
26	A man or woman who deliberately damages sacred treaty,
27	Can never themselves occupy a sacred office;
28	Can never possess valid authority;
29	And can never be a custodian of sacred objects or country.
30	A people who permit such perversion of law,
31	Abandon any respect of law or justice.
32	Any law that dishonors such law cannot be law.