The dissent is entered not against the law's existence but against its timing: when in one hundred forty-eight years necessity has not been invoked even once, to write this law now comes not from need but from an anxiety for completeness.

The majority wrote this in its reasoning: the check is drawn before the rain falls. The minority adds this: a check once drawn is, one day, surely cashed.

Both sentences have been recorded; let the reader weigh them.