Friday, February 26, 2010

Teaser Friday

--Grab your current read
--Let the book open to a random page.
--Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
--You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from… that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

The validation of enacted law can be undermined by contrary practice in one of two ways. First, since the validity of enacted law rests at the outset on nothing but acceptance of the formal constitutional rules by whose authority it is enacted, and since such constitutional rules are themselves liable to change just like any other rules of the system, the validity of enacted law is threatened by constitutional change unless the rules are incorporated into the continuing body of Common Law.

--from Bentham And The Common Law Tradition

2 comments:

  1. "We have to question the legal regulations that have been decided in the
    parliaments of present day democracies. The most direct association which comes
    to mind is the abortion laws...

    "Parliaments which create and promulgate such laws must be aware that they are
    transgressing their powers and remain in open conflict with the law of God and
    the law of nature."

    These are the thoughts of Pope John Paul II in a book in which he
    controversially compared abortion and the Holocaust.


    cyberian

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  2. Conclusion: The death of God movement was short lived, dominating the scene for a decade or so. It was based on a dialectal theology, often attributed to Hegel. Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics by Norman L. Geisler.

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