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Who said: "I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.''?
Why and when?
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail":
"You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, it is rather strange and paradoxical to find us consciously breaking laws. One may well ask 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just and there are unjust laws. I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'An unjust law is no law at all.' . . . A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law."
- ByzantinoLv 71 decade ago
Saint Thomas Aquinas,the why and the when you got to check
it out ,for your better understanding of the quote
Source(s): A PHILOSOPHY OF LAW PAGE on the World Wide Web I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'An unjust law is no law at all. ... the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not ...people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/lawtheory.html - Anonymous1 decade ago
I would guess it was an American Revolutionary...maybe Jefferson or Patrick Henry