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Book Reviews, Henry N. Wieman, Jerome Hall
Book Reviews, Henry N. Wieman, Jerome Hall
Vanderbilt Law Review
The problem discussed by Professor Stumpf in his book Morality and the Law can be summarized by these questions: Do we have two kinds of prescribed conduct, one prescribed by morality independent of the government, the other prescribed by government independent of morality? Or is prescription by government necessarily moral because government is necessarily moral by reason of being the government? If not, under what conditions, if any, does prescription by government become a moral prescription? Under what conditions, if any, is government, by law, a matter of expedience, not to be confused with morality?
reviewer: Henry Nelson Wieman
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