In re Hundred Acre Wood

The question came before the Court today: Is the Hundr Acre timber-land sovereign, or a mere instrumentality? The justices divided upon the question in opinions delivered orally, as follows:

Owl J The presuppositions of our constitutional schema take for granted a certain dignitary majesty in the smaller, although no less unimportant, sovereignties propping up and surrounding, which is to say, constituting, the larger. Ascertaining the particular ratiociniatory processes appropriate to questions of like magnamitude, one is compelled to the conclusion, if not impaled on it, that the Hundred Acre grove is not a mere corporation, province, or instrumentality on the contrary is, in fact, ...