{"id":528,"date":"2009-03-15T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:23:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:23:58","slug":"broken-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=528","title":{"rendered":"Broken Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Broken Laws<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In theory, legislatures pass laws and people obey.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In practice, there are laws that no one obeys, laws that call the legitimacy of law into question altogether, and laws that, if we obey them, we do so in something less than a law-abiding spirit.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This series from 2004 considers them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Note: These pieces are a little heavy on the philosophy and the law.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you find them too dense, don\u2019t go away mad!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just read something else.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">These columns include:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=533\">Unforgivable Laws<\/a> (February 2004)\u00a0are laws that give law a bad name.\u00a0 They do not and cannot bind the conscience.\u00a0 The only problem: Everyone has\u00a0his\/her own\u00a0list of unforgivable laws.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=540\">Debatable Laws<\/a> (March 2004) are laws lots of people support and lots of people disagree with.\u00a0 How you do or do not comply helps determine how legitimate these laws are.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=543\">Inconvenient Laws<\/a> (April 2004) are the rules of the road, literally and figuratively.\u00a0 No one seriously disputes we need them, but no one follows them all the time.\u00a0 What does this tell us?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken Laws \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In theory, legislatures pass laws and people obey.\u00a0 In practice, there are laws that no one obeys, laws that call the legitimacy of law into question altogether, and laws that, if we obey them, we do so in something less than a law-abiding spirit.\u00a0 This series from 2004 considers them.\u00a0 Note: 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