Definition

• A local community is an area with a common interpretation of 3L’s Legal Principle; a local jurisdiction.
• We can expect many communities with differing reasonable interpretations to appear over time as the 3L Philosophy is adopted.

The role of local communities

• The Legal Principle accounts for the legal grey areas that are unavoidable by allowing local communities to determine their own reasonable interpretation, including how the Legal Principle should be enforced and adjudicated.
• Local communities must give due notice such that people are aware of their specific laws and rules and regulations.

What size are they?

• The 3L Philosophy does not prescribe what geographic size a local community can be, but the larger the community is, the lower the cost of the justice system, because the fixed costs are shared by a larger number of people. These fixed costs include how the Legal Principle is enforced and adjudicated.

Forming a new local community; ‘secession’

• Any group of people in a community would be free to secede from their larger community so as to adopt their own reasonable interpretation of the Legal Principle, but doing so would naturally increase costs, or lower the quality, of administering compliance with the local legal system.

Moving vs forming a new community

• Practically, there are many benefits of being part of a large community, but people must be free to choose their preference. Once the 3L Philosophy is widely adopted, it would likely be cheaper and preferable to move to a community of people that share your reasonable interpretation of the Legal Principle, rather than secede and form your own community.

Local communities within nations

• 3L puts the emphasis on bio-regions, rather than national borders. This does not mean that a local community cannot be part of a wider nation. A local community may resolve disputes with neighbouring communities via a Federalist or other system.