Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Verification and Plagiarism

Verification can only be achieved by reading the document? I thought verification means affixing the signature (confirming acknowledgement) of a declarant, the content being the sole responsibility of the declarant regardless of whether be it true or otherwise.

In any case, raise your hand if you have read your credit card agreement word-for-word before signing it. What about when you bought a car or house? Did you read everything in the document you signed, even the fine print?

Do all lawmakers read the bill they vote on? Last time I heard, the most recent US healthcare law comprised of a thousand five hundred pages. When majority opinions were published, did the majority read the dissenting opinion(s) and were the dissenting opinion(s) given the opportunity to be read and heard?

Due process takes course because the declarants need to defend their statements; the accused have a chance to face his accuser, call witnesses for his defense, and refute the accusation in an adversarial setting.

Last question, why on earth is a political process essentially operated by the Rules of Court? Because there is no originality. Mahilig mag-plagiarize.

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