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Inconvenient Laws

Posted on April 30, 2004, 6:47 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

The ongoing struggle — eternally imperfect and unfinished people contending with eternally imperfect and unfinished laws — isn’t pretty, orderly, predictable, or in keeping with any idealized civics-class visions. But it is the hand we’ve been dealt. We must make the most of it.

Tags: E.M. Forster, gratification of impulses, jaywalking, Justice Holmes, littering, Oliver Wendell Holmes, regulation of the commons, responsibility of lawyers to obey laws, running redlights, spitting on subway, traffic lights; morality of laws
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Unforgivable Laws

Posted on February 27, 2004, 6:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Laws that give law a bad name. They do not and cannot bind the conscience. The only problem: Everyone has his/her own list of unforgivable laws.

Tags: 1935 Nuremberg Laws, A Man for All Seasons, Al Qaeda, anti-abortionist, Apartheid, Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey, Broken Laws, Confederate, conscientious objector, death penalty, draft resistance, draft resister, E.M. Forster, gay marriage, Holocaust, Japanese internment, Jim Crow, John Brown, Mahatma Gandhi, marijuana, Martin Luther King, Mohammad Atta, Nigel Hamilton, Robert Bolt, same sex marriage, secession, Senator Bob Kerrey, slavery, the Draft, Thomas More, Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, Unforgivable Laws, Vietnam War, William Roper
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