[AMSAT-BB] Re: Bylaws Amendment - Membership Application Review

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:11 AM Clint Bradford [email protected] wrote:

I read the AMSAT bylaws as standing on their own …

Uh huh. I was objecting to this line specifically:

This provision is adapted nearly word for word from ARRL Bylaw 2

This was offered as a justification for the rule, and sincerely so. But Paul and the BoD entirely mis-interpreted the rule they were copying because they hadn't seen the Articles of Association text that modified it. So, the justification offered turns out to be misleading and invalid.

This is what makes law so difficult. To parse the actual effect of something, you need to first have all of the context.

Thanks

Bruce