All Posts Tagged With: "Natural Law"
A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society; and Recapturing the Constitution: Race, Religion, and Abortion Reconsidered
The second part of the twentieth century has witnessed a marked decline in the rule of law. The legal profession appears to be out of control as society becomes ever more litigious and the guarantees of the Constitution are ignored. What happened to the United States Tocqueville visited where “that numerous and turbulent multitude does [...]
1Aug1995 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism: An Evaluation of Contemporary American Political Ideologies in Light of Catholic Social Teaching
With politics increasingly polarized and penetrating more and more facets of life, it becomes important for American Catholics to know which doctrines and parties they can support while remaining faithful to Church teaching. Professor Stephen Krason of Franciscan University of Steubenville has produced an excellent guide for the perplexed. After defining liberalism and conservatism and [...]
1Jun1995 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Role of Rights
The modern environmental movement was launched in the early 1960s. Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, triggered fears of chemicals. Concern about dirty air was heightened by a London smog disaster that same year and several noteworthy pollution incidents in the United States. Such events increased awareness among the public, elected representatives, and the media [...]
1Mar1995 | Roger E. Meiners | 0 comments | ContinuedThe History of Freedom
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This one sentence, from a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, not from some public document, has served to immortalize Lord Acton’s thought for posterity. And yet, like most short summaries, it hides so much of central importance to Lord Acton that it is almost misleading. What [...]
1Jan1995 | Salim Rashid | 0 comments | ContinuedNatural Laws of Human Relations
Mr. Bateman is a Vice-president and Director 05 Anderson, Utayton & uom2aany. Human relations, like science, are bound by certain inexorable laws which men violate at their own risk. Even demagogues and dictators respect the natural laws of science. Yet all of us to some degree fail to have equal respect for the natural laws [...]
1Aug1956 | Dupuy Bateman Jr. | 0 comments | Continued-
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