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To: B Knotts; sinkspur

Halleluja, brother. And as St. Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all."

While I am at, I am going to get physically ill if someone opines one more time that this is a nation of laws. What nation wasn't a nation of laws? Our founding fathers broke laws. They broke the laws of their Sovereign, the Kind of England. Without such "lawlessness" we wouldn't have this "nation of laws." They fought and died for the proposition that there is a higher law than mans' law.

The idea of a higher law, natural law, what have you, has a long tradition in the Western world. I think there comes a time when people have to draw the line. I think this sentiment is perfectly compatible with the beliefs of our founding fathers.


172 posted on 03/27/2005 5:31:12 PM PST by mandatum
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To: mandatum

Umm...I meant "King of England". He was not very Kind.


173 posted on 03/27/2005 5:33:08 PM PST by mandatum
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