Standing is also the encapsulation of the opinion held, the polarity desired, and the law expressed. However, it is from the point of view of a recipient. Standing measures whether or not a lawmaker recognizes that a flow of conduct in circumstances "belongs" to or is "owned" by a recipient In contrast to weight, standing is visual not tactile. Moreover, our grammar is geared to weight rather than standing and, alas, we are all prisoners of our grammar. There are no intrinsic grammatical structures in our language that express standing. There are no ‘shalls’ or ‘mays’ that serve as clues. Hence, it is easier to talk from the perspective of a source rather than a recipient. To understand standing, one must look into the eyes of a lawmaker because standing is recognition. Either a lawmaker does or does not recognize the standing of a recipient. Hence, standing, like weight, is either present or absent. The presence of standing is represented by a 'token' called a ‘right’. The absence of standing is represented by a 'token' called a 'no-right'. A lawmaker binds a command to a recipient by handing the recipient a right. A lawmaker binds a permission to a recipient by handing the recipient a no-right. Think of a general pinning a medal on the tunic of a soldier. Binding a law to a recipient with standing is one of the three activities that a lawmaker does in making a law.
In A Unified Theory of a Law are four (4) relationships, one (1) of which is factual and three (3) of which are legal. The three legal relationships correspond to the three decisions that a lawmaker makes from her perch at the acme of the Triangle of Law®, The third legal relationship involves binding a law to a recipient with standing. Binding a law to a recipient with standing is depicted in Columns 6 and 7 on the Periodic Table of the Elements of a Law®. in binding a law to a recipient with standing, the legal focus is upon the recipient.
In summary, the constant - variable - values relationship here is standing. Its variable holds two values: a right or a no-right.
The following concepts are explained in the Glossary: