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Violating the perceived intention of the law has been found to affect people's judgments of culpability above and beyond violations of the letter of the law such that (1) a person can violate the letter of the law (but not the spirit) and not incur culpability, (2) a person can violate the spirit of the law and incur culpability, even without ...
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals [ 1 ] Kant concludes that a moral proposition that is true must be one that is not tied to any particular conditions, including the identity and desires of the person making the ...
The bill's common title is named after Sabrina Shannon, a 13 year old student from Pembroke, Ontario, who died in September 2003 after suffering an anaphylactic reaction at school. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her death and its publicity would contribute to the public support for and later passing of Sabrina's Law.
The idea of a law of ultimate justice over and above the momentary law of the state—a higher law—was first introduced into post-Roman Europe by the Catholic canon law jurists. [3] "Higher law" can be interpreted in this context as the divine or natural law or basic legal values, established in the international law—the choice depending on ...
If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third act it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." — Sergius Shchukin (1911) Memoirs. [14] [3] "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, Republican nominee for governor, faces startling allegations in a new report released on Thursday. The report from CNN connects ...
In law, ignorantia juris non excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not"), [1] or ignorantia legis neminem excusat ("ignorance of law excuses no one"), [2] is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content.
A page on Facebook posted a quote attributed to Nancy Pelosi about immigrants in the U.S. illegally. But there's no proof she actually said it.