Natural Law, Self-Evident Truth, and the Declaration

THE CMC WASHINGTON PROGRAM

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The Declaration of Independence and Moscow on the Hudson:



The Declaration

Dr. King on natural law:

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? 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 St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Self-evident truth and Federalist 31.

The real Abraham Lincoln on Euclid and the Declaration:

One would start with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

The movie version: