Negative Rebuttal: Resolved that a Local Consistory has the Right to Act Contrary to the Church Order (1)

The final paragraph of my introduction reads: "Now I believe that I have discovered all the issues in this disputation. If my opponent knows of others, let him advance them and I will be only too glad to consider them. If he knows of no others, he and I must keep ourselves strictly to these issues. Not doing so, we sidestep the main issue which is whether or not a local consistory has the right to act contrary to the Church Order, i.e., the private right to revise its articles." The...