Civil Law vs. Moral Law
Title: Civil Law vs. Moral Law
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 501 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Civil Law vs. Moral Law
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 501 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
As long as there have been laws emplaced, many moral and civil boundaries have been of great dispute. Problems arise when the two unavoidable laws clash - when what is morally right is not always legal. This battle is ancient and is even written about in Antigone. There are times when moral law is more important than civil law, civil law overrides moral law, and several ways that the correlate with each other.
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without persecution. Moral law and Civil Law can work together very effectively in protecting people's needs to have opinions and their needs to be protected from violence and harassment.
<Tab/>All around the world, people have a basic need for justice. This need can be fulfilled by Moral or Civil law, or even both. These laws have their privileges and set backs, but are still necessary and beneficial to the people.