Donald Sassoon - Laws are often made to express collective ethical

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

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In America we do not have an official church that can morally speak for the society as a whole. As a result, we often use the law to make a moral statement even if the law is rarely enforced like prostitution. Sometimes we hear the expression, “There ought to be a law” as that is the only way we can express a societal moral value.

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Donald Sassoon, Political & Economic Historian, Political Scientist, One Hundred Years of Socialism, 1996

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