We've all said our bits in the thread, but we should still release an actual holding. I'm inclined to say this:
Upon review of the proposal, we believe that the Patent Recognition Treaty does not violate the Ideological Ban rule. To hold that mere recognition of a concept that a nation is ideologically opposed to is insufficient to warrant application of the rule. To do so would create an overbroad rule that would bar a majority of existing legislation, rationalizing down ever more slippery slopes. The analogy of property rights as a bundle of sticks is apt here: we believe one can recognize, and even mandate, a few of the sticks in that bundle without lashing the entire stack to every law book, thus crossing the line into banning communal property ideologies wholesale.
As such, we hold the proposal to be Legal.
