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Relationship Between Public Law and “Morality”

The laws enacted become expressions of public morality.  As Justice Holmes put it, “(t)he law is the witness and deposit of our moral life.”[420] “In a liberal democracy, the law reflects social morality over a period of time.”[421] Occasionally though, a disproportionate political … Continue reading

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