More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you—where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast—man’s laws, not God’s—and if you cut them down—and you’re just the man to do it—d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
A Man For All Seasons, by Robert Bolt
Good post!
Irrelevant and immaterial. More's conundrum was not related to the Life issue (except his own...) and it is clear that under the FL Constitution AND the US Constitution, either executive (or Congressional) actions can be taken.
Further, it is clear that the Fed Courts simply ignored explicit Congressional language in failing to de-novo review the case.
Amen to that.
Yet law-abiding scholars write:
Law is neither wrong nor right,
Law is only crimes
Punished by places and by times,
Law is the clothes men wear
Anytime, anywhere,
Law is Good morning and Good night.Others say, Law is our Fate;
Others say, Law is our State;
Others say, others say
Law is no more,
Law has gone away.And always the loud angry crowd,
Very angry and very loud,
Law is We,
And always the soft idiot softly Me.W.H. Auden (excerpt)