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Two Lawyers Named Thomas

Posted on June 2, 2013, 8:28 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

In a barbaric legal culture, even conscientious lawyers are likely to find themselves acting a lot like barbarians.

Tags: Anne Boleyn, annulment, beheading, Bloody Mary, burning at the stake, burning of heretics, Catherine of Aragon, divorce, Eighth Amendment, Elizabeth I, expropriation of monasteries, Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, freedom of speech, Henry VIII, Hilary Mantel, imagining the king's death, Jonathan Sumption, King Henry VIII, kulaks, male succession, monasteries, police power, primogeniture, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary, sanguinary punishments, separation of church and state, Stalinist, The Tudors, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, treason
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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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