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To: annalex
I believe that as we witness a failure of constitutional republican government to safeguard freedom, a social theory that acknowledges, with the French, the objective and universal character of natural rights, and, with the British, the critical role of traditional well-constructed institutions of government, will emerge.

Man-oh-man, there is a fruitful speculation worthy of its own thread sometime.

I would say that a small synthsis is possible. It exists in the Natural Law doctrine and applies only to animating the Legislative force.

39 posted on 02/05/2003 9:05:47 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: KC Burke
applies only to animating the Legislative force.

Why do you say that? The Natural Law finds its implementation in the customary case law, not in the statutes.

41 posted on 02/05/2003 9:27:35 AM PST by annalex
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