Bush impeached for federal crimes?

In rereading my last post it occurs to me that perhapsed in this same context I should post this view of the terms Legal and Lawful.

Also from Blacks Law Dictionary Sixth Edition.

Legal refering to the form of law..

Lawful refering to the substance of law.

Many times in debates these are used interchangably to give the impression they are the same. When you read carefully they are not.


Legality is often associated with keeping forms or appearences of law..by observing primarily the way the law is carried out ...the form.

Lawful is concerned with the very substance of what a law is intended to do. Many lawyers will not make this clarification for you. They know it but do not want you to know it. They want you to think they are the same.

Keep this in mind when this committee forms this month or next month in this wiretapping or spying buisness...or even in local cases..the form of law and the substance of the law..legal and lawful.


Thanks,
Orangetom