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It's My Right: Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics| Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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Aquinas's Definition of Law

Aquinas says law is an ordination of reason for the common good made by one with care of the community. Law has to be accountable to reason in some way, he writes. There's got to be some basic principles that we can figure out about that, and those principles are going to be the same across human societies.

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