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I don't think putting all the laws of nature into a hodgepodge that
one calls the first postulate is a good idea. To my mind the
postulates are supposed to be meta-laws that the observed laws of are
to obey. This means that we ought not assume Maxwell's equations a
priori before we get the meta-laws down. The way I see it Maxwell's
equations *depend on* the Lorentz invariance of SR; they don't
dictate that invariance *to* SR (contrary to the formulations of SR
that one often sees that takes the constancy of the speed of light as
the 2nd postulate of SR).