Sentences with phrase «human law»

Anyone who commits this kind of evil must be punished by law, by human law.
Further, his argument assumes that one MUST be able to judge human laws — he never answers why that's necessary.
Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos - at - large.
In the case of human law, punishment means suffering the civil consequences of violation; in the case of natural law it means suffering the natural consequences of violation.
Congratulations are in order for Justin Patten, our Legal Blog Watch affiliate from the United Kingdom, whose Human Law blog just celebrated its first anniversary.
In so far as men are men they possess common elements; and in their political and social life those elements inevitably emerge and are recognizable in custom and law... Such natural law represents the permanent portion of human law in general, and it is prior to and superior to positive legislation, which is only a supplement thereto.»
Justin Patten at Human Law extends congratulations to One Crown Office Row Chambers, which Internet reviewer Delia Venables recently singled out as one of the three most interesting chambers sites on the Web.
None other than Justin Patten of Human Law takes the honors, hosting Blawg Review # 78 with a distinctly British feel.
But if your client can't afford a costly fight, or would rather focus its energy on building its business rather than embroiled in disputes, then take a look at this tips from Human Law Mediation entitled 5 ways to avoid costly litigation.
«According to our Teacher, just as they are sinners who contract a second marriage, even though it be in accord with human law, so also are they sinners who look with lustful desire at a woman.
Phillips sits there on the counter, cigarette in hand as human law enforcement works around him.
Are experts at entangling, twisting and further pervert HUMAN laws, rules & regulations.
Christ's love is always destructive of even the best human law and goodness; this is why he was so dangerous then, and it is why Christianity is always potentially a revolutionary threat.
In the Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas famously teaches that «human laws do not forbid all vices, from which the virtuous abstain, but only the more grievous vices, from which it is possible for the majority to abstain, and chiefly those that are injurious to others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be maintained.»
In the section of the Summa Theologiae called the «Treatise on Law,» he asks whether human law binds man in conscience.
If human law is changed to allow polygamy, it will be practiced again.
As Russell Hittinger has shown in his book The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian Society (see chapter four), St. Thomas's point is not that the judge corrects a flawed human law in favor of the natural law.
In 1841, defending African men on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature are announced and appealed to as identical with the laws of Nature's God» and as the foundation of all obligatory human laws
Religious zealots think the rules of their gods trump human law.
Of course, there is and must be much human law in the Church, and this can be changed; indeed, it not only may but must be adapted to new circumstances.
You and your God and all that believe like you can have full reign for all eternity in your particular conceptualization of your afterlife but here on Earth we like people to be treated equal before human law.
In essence, an immature believer says «human ethics need to be subordinate to my interpretation of scripture»; and they also say «human law needs to be subordinate to my interpretation of God's law».
Only very sick organisms are hopelessly unhappy, and the sicker they are the sooner they may die unless deliberately kept alive by others, perhaps because of foolish human laws.
And religous people are more likely to violate the rights of others in our secular society because their beliefs are often held to be «above human law».
In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said that if there was no higher divine law, there would be no way to tell if any particular human law was unjust.
The new strategic game made by Positech Games has a delicious art design and perfectly applies human laws and behaviours to the animal kingdom.
Justin Patten of Human Law announces a new project for 2007: a book on blogging and social media.
Blogs may be a relatively recent technological development, but as Justin Patten of Human Law comments here, blogs can play a rather old - fashioned function: engaging lawyers in «an ongoing community dialogue,» which, ultimately, will benefit their reputations.
Human Law reports here that he's working his way through Malcolm Gladwell «sbook «Blink.»
Human Law informs us at this post that the London Times has added several blogs to its online offerings, including a law - related Web log.
The United States Supreme Court, however, has recently told attorneys that no such wishful assertion can be as effective, at least in the universe where human laws intersect with the laws of nature.
Read the reviews, watch the introduction, check out his latest webisode and definitely catch him and his twin human law firm partner in the latest Flash TV commercial!
Blue J. is starting with important distinctions in the law, just as human law students do.
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