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I don't disagree with the recitation, but would point out that it would be most problematic to enforce against the traveling Mason. Assuming that either charges were brought and properly served and the conviction entered, or the GM summarily suspended, I suspect it unlikely the discipline...
For instance, the two Prince Hall lodges in Utah are members of MW Prince Hall GL of Colorado and it's Jurisdictions.
I am pleased to say they both rent space in Grand Lodge of Utah buildings.
Two different concepts: declaring rights in the Jurisdiction's documents and complying with those rights. The United States has a Bill of Rights, and yet those rights are at times violated. Two different issues. Please identify which jurisdictions do not declare rights in their laws.
In Utah...
Each GL of which I am aware already does declare a Mason's rights. In Utah, it includes the right to object to a visitor. It appears you wish to abrogate the right of the brethren. That is in derogation of their rights, not in support of their rights.
Further, for a WM to have the final say...
Hmm. I have spent 32 years as an attorney and judge either trying to influence a higher power with my words or being the higher power who was listening to the (sometimes) influencing words. I view my relationship with Deity in -somewhat- the same manner. To me, it is not magic, it is logic.
http://www.sos.ky.gov/admin/Executive/Pages/Kentucky-Colonels.aspx
http://www.formsofaddress.info/Colonel_Kentucky.html
We can also reflect on the time when lawyers in the South were sometimes called Colonel. The last person I recollect using the term is a Mason some years senior to me. See...
Small correction which does not change the substantive point: the Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebellious states. It did not outlaw slavery in the United States. See http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
Hmm. How about an analogy? In my mother jurisdiction, we have exacting requirements to become a Wordhipful Master, including the ability to open and close lodge in all three degrees, confer all three degrees, perform the lecture of a degree, do the "G" lecture, perform each of the officer...