The doctrine underlying A Unified Theory of a Law is called THE TRIANGLE OF LAW® because the relationships amongst a lawmaker, a source and a recipient can be depicted using the simple geometric shape of a triangle. A lawmaker at the top of THE TRIANGLE OF LAW® looks down upon a flow of conduct at its base and sees a source at one corner and a recipient at the other corner. This depiction is purely factual. There is nothing legal about it. It becomes legal if and only if we recognize that the person who plays the factual role of source and the person who plays the factual role of recipient also can play a legal role: that of a token holder. The ability to hold a legal token takes a source and a recipient from the factual into the legal. The legal ability to hold a token is separate and distinct from the factual ability to be a source or a recipient. Conventionally, a lawmaker wields weight – either a duty or a privilege – towards a token holder who is also a source and wields standing – a right or no-right – towards a token holder who is also a recipient. Hence, the conventional depiction of THE TRIANGLE OF LAW® suggests that only a source can be a weight token holder and only a recipient can be a standing token holder. Although this is conventional, this is not necessarily the case. A lawmaker can bind tokens to someone other than a source and a recipient. When a lawmaker binds a legal token - a duty, privilege, right or no-right - to someone other than a source or a recipient, the lawmaker is engaged in extrapolation.

