Happy Treason Day

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A better analogy would be that your grandfather and his ancestors owned that farm for generations. People begin gradually encroaching on his farm - trespassing, stealing his corn, etc. To defend what is rightfully his, grandad decides on an armed response (a position I’m sure you’d feel comfortable with), and all the neighbours respond in kind.

This tit-for-tat drags on for several years until both sides get tired of it. They make a formal agreement that the farm will stay in your family in perpetuity and the neighbours will keep their mitts off it. 

Then oil (or gold or plantinum) is discovered on the farm, so the neighbours band together, tear up the agreement, and forcibly remove grandad from the farm.

You learn about all this and decide to go to law over it. The case drags on and on for so long that all the original parties to the agreement have died...BUT your case makes it all the way to the Supreme Court who decide that the land was illegally taken from your family and is yours by right.

Should the current occupiers be evicted and the property restored to you?

Boru

One major difference -

All signators have been dead for generations...


At some point it gets ridiculous honoring contracts of the long dead....


...

Treaties are not personal arrangements, they are agreements between sovereign States signed by representatives OF those States. It doesn’t matter in the least that the individuals who signed the Laramie Treaty are dead, since the parties to that treaty (the US and the Sioux Nation) still exist. 

Did your Constitution become null and void when the last of the signers died? How about the Treaties Paris or Ghent? Will NATO dissolve when the last signatories give up the ghost?

Come on.

Boru