# lexicon.soapbox.community

> Legal Lexicon & Sources of Authority — teaches that a dictionary (e.g. Black's) is persuasive reference, not binding law; pro-se teaching mission.

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## Pages

- [Legal Lexicon & Sources of Authority — dictionaries vs. law](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/): Legal Lexicon & Sources of Authority — legal dictionaries vs law, founding-era meaning, American vs British common law, persuasive authority, and an American legal lexicon. Free, Can: Search (Look up a legal term (e.g. “common law”, “due process”)…) -> "Search the lexicon"; Buttons: Search the lexicon
- [American common law vs British common law](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/common-law): 1. Reception: English common law came over — on each state’s terms
- [Legal dictionaries — what they are and aren’t](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/dictionaries): Three dictionaries worth knowing
- [Dictionary directory — legal dictionaries & per-country glossaries](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/directory): Core legal dictionaries
- [The Federalist & Anti-Federalist Papers as near-law authority](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/federalist): What they are
- [Founding-era dictionaries & original public meaning](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/founding-era): The method, in one case
- [The American Legal Lexicon](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/glossary): The American Legal Lexicon — 51 terms Can: Search (Search the lexicon…) -> "Search"; Buttons: Search
- [Persuasive authority: British case law in American courts](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/persuasive): Binding vs. persuasive
- [Reception of English law & the earliest American cases](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/reception): Reception statutes
- [Using Black’s Law Dictionary correctly](https://lexicon.soapbox.community/sovereign-citizen): What a dictionary actually is

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