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Cal Thomas: What is the Law?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Cal Thomas writes at Jewish World Review: "What is the law? Is it a game played by insiders who went to Harvard (or Yale) law schools and the intellectual equivalent of theological debates over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or is it something else, and if something else, what? The classical view of law is that it is meant to restrain lawbreakers. But in order to define a lawbreaker, one must have a standard for law so that people know it when they break it. The modern ("progressive" as Kagan has been called) view of law is that it is to serve the political ends of those in power . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).