Locke also believed that it was the single most important duty of governments to protect the God-given natural rights of their citizens. In return, Locke expected those citizens to follow the legal laws enacted by the government. Should the government break this “contract” with its citizens by...
While human reason is distorted by sin, God prevents this corruption from becoming so thorough as to make humans incapable of knowing the basic precepts of the natural law. God freely and generously wills natural laws that lead humans to the fulfillment of their nature. ...
The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (review) Reformers selectively compiled local laws and practices into lengthy works to forge the impression that law was a set of consistent, underlying principles. ... M Tushnet - 《We...
Science is limited to discovering and formulating God’s laws of nature and using them to benefit mankind.Biology, then, is limited to finding God’s design in the physical part of the living creation and applying that knowledge to help man dominate the earth.” Although it...
[…] And upon this ground, I affirm that the magistrate’s power extends not to the establishing of any articles of faith, or forms of worship, by the force of his laws. For laws are of no force at all without penalties, and penalties in this case are absolutely impertinent, because ...
The official line of most American seminaries today is that the Bible was given for the church, but natural law is sufficient to inform us of the laws that should govern our society. One of the biblical passages supporting this view is Romans 2: 14-15, “For when Gentiles who do not ...
One can observe the nature of plants and animals, including humans, and find a divine natural law, in two senses of that term: a description of the “laws of nature” by which natural processes can in fact be observed to operate, and even a prescription for how they are supposed to ...
Noun1.state of nature- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild" natural state,wild state- the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a ...
"...the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war" says the ACLU (http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/p...).In 1789, today's NDAA...
People want to have better living conditions by continuous consumption of resources, polluting the environment, and undermining the laws of nature . Ultimately more disasters occurred . Therefore, we have to take immed 18、iate measures to protect our environment, do more contributions rather than ...