Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, Fifth Edition
We are seeing the importance of the judiciary right now. Whenever you have laws (or simply rules), there is a need to adjudicate whether someone has broken the rules.
Albert Wenger • We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
Even the most inventive, aggressive, and original legal argument is constructed upon that which came before—prior court cases, constitutions, and existing statutes and regulations.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
Recognize, also, that you undoubtedly break laws continually. It’s almost impossible to drive a car without breaking traffic laws. And most other kinds of laws are filled with contradictions that make nearly everyone a lawbreaker just by going about his own business.
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Basically, our choice as lawgiver is either God or man. If we reject God as lawgiver, we have rejected Him as our sovereign, our ruler. The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1771, defined law thus: “The command of the sovereign power, containing a common rule of life for the subjects.” The law a person recognizes as his law tells us who
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And indeed the lawyer-like character which I am endeavoring to depict is most distinctly to be met with in England: there laws are esteemed not so much because they are good as because they are old; and if it be necessary to modify them in any respect, or to adapt them the changes which time operates in society, recourse is had to the most inconcei
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