Sentences with phrase «law tradition because»

One might think, then, that Jews and Christians wouldn't have a natural law tradition because they wouldn't need it.

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«This is really a power grab and it's a phony bill because the whole intention is to take it up to our state supreme court to overturn the constitutionality of the no income tax that has been the tradition of our state, as well as state laws,» Hutchison told CNBC.

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Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.

Because Jesus was Jewish, He obeyed the Mosaic Law, worshipped God in the Jewish Temple, attended a Jewish Synagogue, taught from the Jewish Scriptures, and even obeyed many of the Jewish oral traditions.

In the philosophic tradition of Thomas Aquinas, «natural law» is distinguished from divine law because its commands are accessible to human reason even in the absence of divine revelation.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

i.e. France banning Muslim traditions, Arizona's push for a more discriminitve law, Americans discriminatine against Muslims and such because of 9/11 and their persistant nagging of us being infadels.

This criticism fails, Person points out, because on any issue where the requirements of the natural law were clear, Kirk always conceded their precedence over tradition.

Though He often does things that were against the Jewish law and Jewish traditions, and because of this, He is often accused of sinning, He never once broke the law of God as contained in the Old Testament.

Antigone's claim that this higher law has divine authority can easily be misunderstood, because the Greeks did not have a tradition of verbal revelation.

They were studied in Scripture and in Jewish law and tradition, but because they were so convinced they were right, so unwilling to hold their beliefs about God with an open hand, they missed Him in his «distressing disguise.»

This could not have been made up hundreds of years later and forced upon the people because if they had not had that tradition, and were not observing these laws of Passover, and someone tried to come up with the story and enforce it upon them many years later, they would know it was baloney and not do it.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

And as such, because of the implications of marriage as a tradition crossing into the realm of civil law, it is also being seen as conflicted with the ideals outlined for separation of church and state.

But immigrants have come here not because Canada has no core political identity, but precisely because of Canada's core political identity: a stable democracy with a vibrant tradition of the rule of law rooted in British and French precedents.

Jesus» message in the Gospels involved the political act of trying to transform a tradition — defying the law and picking corn to eat on the sabbath because «humans were not made for the sabbath.

DOMA, because of its reach and extent, departs from this history and tradition of reliance on state law to define marriage.

Because we have repeatedly found that law enforcement agencies and animal control agencies are working a lot of times off of tradition or off internal policy that is not actually legislated in local laws.

I would even go so far as to say that because we are dedicated to the rule of law, we are bound to engage the public using whatever it takes, within reasonable limits, to ensure true respect and heart - felt desires protect what staid traditions have fostered.

California, is known as Community Property state, because the marriage laws developed from the Spanish legal traditions.

Because Ireland will be «the only remaining English - speaking, common law tradition country in the EU and eurozone, it makes [Ireland] the logical gateway for investment for countries that share that heritage,» including the US and Canada, as well as Australia and New Zealand, according to Black.

That being the case the Friday before Labour Day weekend is like New Year's Eve and my tradition for academic New Year's Eve is to take a look at the incoming class of law students to see what their mindset is and try to figure out how to relate to them (I dropped my Dragnet reference with regards to legal writing «just the facts» years ago, which was a shame because I really liked that one).

He says the tradition of the games is important because it creates «lasting ties» between law students across the country.