Living practice across generations
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Living Practice Across Generations
Tsm’syen law endures through living practice across generations.
Ayaawk is not preserved by text alone, but by continual enactment, witnessing, and correction.
Meaning
Living practice means that law is:
- Carried by people, not stored apart from them
- Repeated in lawful settings
- Taught through action and responsibility
- Adjusted through correction without losing integrity
Law that is not practiced becomes fragile.
Legal Principle
Ayaawk lives through continuity of conduct.
Under Tsm’syen law:
- Each generation receives law in trust
- No generation owns law outright
- Each generation is accountable to past and future
- Practice renews legitimacy
Continuity prevents erasure and reinvention alike.
Transmission
Law is transmitted through:
- Names that carry legal continuity
- Adaawk that record precedent
- Witness recognition and memory
- Daily governance and care
- Lawful succession and correction
Transmission requires presence, not assumption.
Adaptation Without Break
Living law adapts without severing continuity.
This occurs when:
- New conditions are addressed using precedent
- Shared Ayaawk is re-articulated
- Limits are respected despite pressure
- Houses remain the carriers of authority
Change without memory is rupture. Memory without practice is stagnation.
Protection Against Loss
Ayaawk is weakened when:
- Law is treated as symbolic
- Practice is replaced by policy
- Authority is centralized away from houses
- Witness roles are diminished
- External systems redefine meaning
Living practice resists erosion.
Continuity
Across generations:
- Responsibilities are fulfilled
- Authority remains legitimate
- Witnesses continue recognition
- Ayaawk remains intact
The Nation endures because law is lived.