Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does

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The second example is the raid on Panama during George Busch's presidency that involved the invasion of a Nicaraguan ambassadors home. Both of these violate the laws of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and extraterritoriality (Huston). It is very easy to show that these two acts of the U...
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government are in complete contradiction to our very own constitution. So now it easy to say that laws sometimes need to be broken for the good of the masses. When Dr. King wrote that he would aid the Jews even though he would be braking the law and be open about, he was making the point that yes it was morally justifiable to break the law...
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