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Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does - College Papers

Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does

Is an individual ever morally justified in breaking a man made law? I
firmly believe the answer to this question is yes. If the question was stated
as, is an individual ever legally justified in breaking a man made law I would
have to say no. There are several reasons that have made me believe that it is
morally justifiable in breaking the law; however the most convincing comes from
Dr. Martin Luther King in his letter from a Birmingham Jail. " We can never
forget what that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal..." (Classic
Arguments 668). King went on in his letter to say that it would be against man
made law to help a jew in Nazi Germany. What King said in his letter has ...

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without any
other
parameters, this natural state of existence would govern its
behavior. Fortunately there are parameters, and they are laws.
(Mosier)

What this basically says is that laws are made up to maintain order, monitor
actions, and work for the best interest of society as a whole. If their were no
laws chaos and anarchy would be widespread. This is why society has set up
governments. To maintain order and to gives us safety.
All of the above sounds good to me; however I have written a term paper
on international politics that points out where our own government has broken
its own laws. The first is the Congressional order allowing Federal
Investigators to take into custody fugitives of American laws no matter where
they are apprehended on this planet. 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, ...

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Added: 4/6/2007 03:42:50 PM
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 884
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