Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested by time, but also a mind alert to present needs and the future consequences of public and private legal decisions.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
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