This shows the publisher had no illusions that the publication was necessarily an accurate compilation of the law, much less the law itself. The ceremonial law or political laws of the Jews are of this class. Any rule or law established and written out by human agency is positive law. They are laws that exist under the United States, but they are clearly of a different nature than acts of Congress which a citizen can be indicted for violating. We thus come again to the question of authority.
None legally exists unless one acquieses to such law.
The U. S. Code has none of the forms and solemnities that are essential to make it law which citizens in America are subject to, and congress cannot make it law by its say-so. Under the general rule that grants of powers are strictly construed, such provisions are generally mandatory in the sense that the power granted can be exercised only in strict conformity with the statutory therefor . The United States Code is only prima facie statement of the stataute law, and statutes collected in it do not change their meaning nor acquire any new force by their inclusion and if construction is necessary, recourse must be had to the original statutes themselves. Murrel v. W. U. Tel. Inclusion of designated sections of the Revised Statutes into codification of general and permanent laws of United States did not have effect of re-enacting such sections of Revised Statutes.