Sunday, 12 August 2012

on laws

http://www.authenticleadershipinc.com/pdf/Blackstone_Scholarship.pdf
 
'Any law based upon the implementation of an immoral or annatural act is void, even if it leads to harmony or relieves a percieved injustice. 

Law must obey the Moral Imperative.

 Immanuel Kant considered it the highest duty of the legislator to furnish laws- universal natural laws- common to sentient beings that ensured the good and happiness of all who were subject to them including the legislator himself, who must ensure that freedom and duty were not simply abused by the selfish license of the ill intended and selfish. 

From the latter tyranny ensues, and all right thinking men must resist such devilment and afront to God and Man. 

Good and efficient Laws and draftmanship, are clearly within the laws of nature and those that try to transcend this obvious fact, will surely reap what they sowed in their deceit.'
 
Samuel Horton LLB 1974.
 
Notes taken by student Guy Leven at Central School of Law October 1974.