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Ah, there is that, yes. There are people who believe that law is some magic where they can prove anything if they know it well enough and know some secrets.
It's not a bad belief, frankly. They want to prove something they consider right, so they believe the law would be on their side if they worked hard enough. Just naive, but not worth ridicule.
In the sense that its connection to justice is not 1-to-1 they are right, but there are no secrets that bend it, just raw real power which a sovereign citizen doesn't possess.
Oh, you already said that.
I don't know what you mean by "figure out" (as in what else there is to figure out), but this is indeed a common enough plot point in fairy tales.
I was talking about the emotional part where right and common sense matter more than the law. The law is supported by force, so it's morally acceptable to use force to protect right and common sense against it. Oh, well, speaking of USA, that's in their Constitution anyway, and what's more important, those founding fathers they like to mention have many times said that this is a natural principle and the Constitution doesn't create or support it, just mentions it.