But code switching is something many women, gay and other minority ethnic people will recognise: a self-denying ordinance forced upon us within any place dominated by straight, white, middle-class men.
Floyd's biographer commented that despite advocating moderation in his annual message in December 1832, he was "secretly counting the costs and horrors of war" and that Floyd characterized Jackson's Proclamation in response to South Carolina's Nullification Ordinance as an "outrage upon our institutions" and a "satire upon the revolution" making war inevitable.
The ordinance was duly voted upon and passed, and I offered to keep an eye open for any violators.
This ordinance will be voted upon once more on July 26th, at which point Mayor Ed Lee will need to sign off on it within 10 days to make it a law.
The sales ban would build upon a city ordinance from 2007 that prohibits the use of city money to purchase bottled water, an initiative that cut $500,000 of annual city spending on a product environmentalists warn creates waste and uses excessive natural resources.
Among Baptists, for example, the practice of "close communion" has restricted the ordinance to those who are baptized properly i.e., as adults upon a profession of faith.
The ordinance states "no person shall sit, lie or sleep in or upon any street, sidewalk or public way" under threat of a $1,000 fine and possible jail term of up to six months.
Seeing this inscription, one instantly remembers the first words of Greek thought: "Whence things have their origin, thence also their destruction happens, as is the order of things (katà tò chreón); for they execute the sentence upon one another the condemnation for the crime in conformity with the ordinance of Time (katà tèn toû chrónou táxin)"z.
The message was apparently not well-communicated, as at 161st and Amsterdam Avenue a policeman arrested Meeker's helper, Mardon, for driving cattle upon the streets of New York in violation of a local ordinance.
The ordinance failed anyway.
