Re: National Sovereignty

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Pat Gunning wrote:

>This is one of the rights of a free people, namely, to appeal to a
>higher morality in order to evaluate a law.

The appeal to higher morality to evaluate the law has itself to be judged.
Appeals to "higher morality" are not always correct, especially since
there is no singular higher morality. Blacks breaking Jim Crow laws in
America as acts of civil disobedience are expressions of an oppressed
people appealing to a higher morality, namely racial equality. Abortion
clinic bombers also appeal to a higher morality, one that justifies
transgressing the laws against killing people for the sake of saving the
unborn. Same higher morality being appealed to?

Andrew Austin
http://web.utk.edu/~aaustin