It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to...
Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Moveme...