Because human activity is varied and changing, legal rule-makers suffer from relative ignorance of fact and indeterminacy of aim (Hart 1961, p. 125). Rules, therefore, are often underinclusive and often overinclusive—that is, covering activities that are irrelevant or marginal to the primary ev...
What beliefs does this primary source quotation illustrate? "The best rewards are those that are generous and predictable, so that the people may profit by them. The best penalties are those that are severe and inescapable, so that the people will fear them. The best laws are those that are...
Considerable ink has been spilt in recent years on the opposing beliefs of legalism and grace as God’s people have come to grips with the first century AD heresy of legalism. Much of what the author has to say was initially hewn at the coalface of daily Christian experience within the co...