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== Youth and the Survival of Law ==
''Category: Tsm’syen Law''  
''Page status: Working''

=== Principle ===
Youth are essential to the survival of law.

Law does not survive through written text alone.  
It survives through understanding, practice, and responsibility carried across generations.

=== Role of Youth ===
Youth ensure the continuity of law by:

* Receiving legal teachings from elders and knowledge holders
* Observing how law is practiced, corrected, and upheld
* Carrying legal responsibility forward into future generations
* Testing whether law remains balanced, relevant, and just
* Becoming future witnesses, speakers, and stewards of authority

Without youth participation, law becomes static and eventually loses legitimacy.

=== Relationship to Elders ===
Elders carry legal memory.  
Youth carry legal continuity.

The relationship between elders and youth ensures that:

* Ayaawx is not lost
* Adaawx remains understood in context
* Interpretation remains grounded rather than abstract
* Law adapts without breaking

=== Responsibility of Governance ===
Preparing youth to understand and carry law is a duty of governance.

Failure to teach youth constitutes a failure of law itself, not a failure of youth.

=== Modern Context ===
In contemporary settings, youth participation in law may include:

* Observation of dispute resolution
* Participation in cultural and legal education
* Advisory roles within governance structures
* Learning responsibilities before holding authority

Youth are not symbolic participants.  
They are future carriers of legal responsibility.

=== Cross References ===
[[Elders as Interpreters of Law]]  
[[Transmission of Ayaawx]]  
[[Adaawx as Legal Record]]  
[[Youth and the Future Line]]  
[[Legal Continuity]]