How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Nevertheless was chance to talk and Prof treated them as if [Lunar Authority] had power to recognize Luna's independence and willingness to do so. While they treated us as a cross between naughty children and criminals up for sentencing. (16.59)
The Loonies overthrow the Warden and Security Chief Alvarez, and everything is hunky-dory, right? Except they need to convince the Federated Nations to acknowledge them as a free state, and seeing how they just broke a bunch of their laws… that's an uphill battle.
Quote #8
So he photographed it and next morning they did come right into our hotel suite and woke me before time and did arrest me and take me away wheel chair and all and did lock me in a cell with bars! For bigamy. For polygamy. For open immorality and publicly inciting others to same. (18.140)
One man's law is another man's not law. And that's another issue this novel takes with rules and laws. Mannie has a perfectly legal marriage on Luna, but in North America, people don't take too kindly to that kind of thing.
Quote #9
A code of laws was being drafted; civil and criminal courts would be instituted for benefit of "client-employees"—which meant all persons in trust area, not just consignees with uncompleted sentences. Public schools would be established, plus indoctrinal adult schools for client-employees in need of same. (19.10)
For this law to work, it has to label the kind of person that falls underneath it. In other words, the law decides what kind of person the Loonies will be rather than letting the Loonies decide this for themselves. It's like being stuck with an awful nickname for the rest of your life, only one with legal consequences.