I guess it was wrong to invoke english common law there. What I meant was that the laws are based upon the opinions, actions, etc. of the people, and that means that as a citizen, I can do my part to form the laws. The back of the ticket itself says I can go to court, plead guilty, and then "make submissions as to penalty", which I understand to mean I can get down on me knees and grovel.  If no one ever argued against laws, we'd have a pretty rotten system.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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