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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (326598)	12/7/2002 4:00:46 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) of 769670

The Constitution does not refer to Natural Law, though the articles arguably define some concepts of natural law, deriving from John Locke, limiting the function of government and implying a social contract based on some divine law. The Declaration of Independence refers to Natural Law but only defines it in the most general way. The idea of Natural Law deriving from God asserts that the individual is accorded the greatest liberty or personal soveriegnty and is due the least degree of impact upon that liberty by others. Modern conservative extremists conveniently forget is that there is an imperative attending natural law to act morally as part of the social contract into which we all enter as citizens. The fact remains that there are competing interpretations of natural law being applied by groups in a self-interested way as if they are solely privy to the fundamental meanings and applications of natural law in modern society. I would distrust anyone claiming, for example, that their right to bear arms derives directly from God.

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