@JoshuaJames4NM Joshua James Lawrence is running for state auditor in New Mexico. https://t.co/aypnPpgAQV
You will find donation links as well as information about volunteering.
@JoshuaJames4NM Joshua James Lawrence is running for state auditor in New Mexico. I have his website up and his donation links are all live. Josh had an impressive record setting amount of write in votes for the NM primary that secured him on the Nov.3 general election ballot. 29,103 people had to write his name in. Which is record setting for write in votes. Check out his website. I also need people to help with media and other volunteer opportunities. Josh plans to bring transparency and accountability to 33 counties. https://t.co/O38xG3FaZW
You will find donation links as well as information about volunteering.
@JoshuaJames4NM Joshua James Lawrence is running for state auditor in New Mexico. I have his website up and his donation links are all live. Josh had an impressive record setting amount of write in votes for the NM primary that secured him on the Nov.3 general election ballot. 29,103 people had to write his name in. Which is record setting for write in votes. Check out his website. I also need people to help with media and other volunteer opportunities. Josh plans to bring transparency and accountability to 33 counties. https://t.co/WQ6HKBtu7v
You will find donation links as well as information about volunteering.
@GovJoshuaJames Josh's website for Texas State Auditor is live. I still have a few tweeks and this am Ill attach winred so that you guys can finally send your donations. Make sure you check out the volunteer sheet and the newsletter sign up, we definitely need volunteers for media ect If you sign up to volunteer, I will already add you to the newsletter https://t.co/7DQH1cirKU
My contact infor is also at the bottom of the site if you wish to have him speak at an event or need anything, just text me.. Definitely need help with media ASAP
Texas land law led me to Mount Sinai.
1/4: These are folios 149v–153r of Sinai Arabic MS 582, a roughly 10th-century Christian Arabic chronicle preserved at St. Catherine’s. This section records the early Islamic conquest of Byzantine territory and preserves the tradition surrounding agreements made with conquered Christian communities.
The significant part is the legal idea preserved in this tradition: change of sovereignty did not necessarily extinguish existing Christian property. Agreements could protect lives, homes, wealth and churches, including protection against churches being destroyed or occupied.
Why does that interest me in Texas? Our oldest land titles run through Mexican and Spanish law, ultimately drawing heavily from the Roman legal tradition codified under Justinian. The emperor who also built St. Catherine’s.
So now I follow the evidence forward from Sinai:
Byzantine right → early Muslim recognition → Mamluk → Ottoman → modern Egypt.
The question is the same one Texas land law taught me to ask: When sovereignty changes, did the new sovereign create the right, or recognize a right that already existed?
These pages don’t answer the St. Catherine’s question. They tell me where to look next. The monastery’s charters, decrees, court records and property documents to see whether that chain of recognition can actually be demonstrated.
🧵 1/4: MS 582 f.150 — Damascus protection agreement. Contains f.150, specifically cited by Zein & El-Wakil for Khālid's Damascus treaty tradition.
Upcoming from Texas Watchtower: When the Sovereign Changes
I did not expect a dispute over Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai to lead me straight back to Texas land law. But it did.
#Texas courts still deal with rights created under governments that no longer exist. Spanish grants survived Mexican sovereignty. Mexican grants survived the #Republic of Texas.
Those rights did not simply disappear when the flag changed. Some of the land grants issued to Austin’s Old Three Hundred in the 1820s remain part of Texas property records today.
Saint Catherine’s presents that question on an extraordinary scale. For roughly fifteen centuries, the monastery survived Byzantine, Islamic, Mamluk, Ottoman and modern Egyptian rule while successive authorities recognized its position and preserved a remarkable documentary chain.
Now an Egyptian court has treated the absence of registration in a modern property system as grounds for denying ownership, despite documents and possession that predate that system by centuries.
Why should Texans care?
Because we understand what is at stake when a newer government encounters rights created under an older sovereign. If Texas adopted the same basic reasoning, portions of our own Spanish and Mexican land history could become legally unintelligible.
And underneath all of it is a much bigger question. When the sovereign changes, does the new government become the source of an old right, or does it inherit authority over a right that already existed?
I’ll be finishing this article after I reach Mount Sinai myself. Texas and Sinai are worlds apart. But sometimes the oldest documents are exactly where modern questions begin.
The monastery is in an active legal fight for its land. If you want to support them: https://t.co/6pGrLlfpWt
If you want to support the research and the journey to Sinai: https://t.co/HKVj80uBUM
Every bit helps get this story told properly.
@OkaybeKabes@SheriffJJames Joseph Maestas or Joshua Lawrence?
Who has your support in the upcoming New Mexico State Auditor election?
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Joseph Maestas or Joshua Lawrence?
Who has your support in the upcoming New Mexico State Auditor election?
Vote in the linked poll, view live results, and explore other polls available:
https://t.co/J824F8MnS7
May 5th is the beginning of Early Primary Voting in New Mexico. Voting goes till June 2nd. Let's get the vote out!
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@PandhandleLadee @CentermassX I really wish I did...
Doc often speaks about a sheriff in southern Texas that is truly constitutional and I sure wish I knew his name right off hand and the people would call upon him.
Sheriff Cohen maybe
@JTitor17 In reality you and everybody else have not taken claim to that social security account and you still operate as a US citizen. There is a remedy for this and unfortunately they do not teach everybody how to go about it. Time everybody has a status correction.
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