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Why are scientific ideas uncertain by nature?
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How do you tell if a law is just?
This is perhaps the best question I have had the pleasure of answering since I began answering questions on Wikianswers. All just laws conform with nature. Gravity is a law and it conforms with nature. The laws that any given society will legislate are not all natural laws, far too many are positive laws (man made laws) and can become part of the problem they were intended to handle. Positive laws are not just laws, no matter how just they may appear. By the virtue of being a man made law as opposed to a discovered law is what makes these laws unjust. All laws discovered to be natural laws are just laws because they seek to protect the rights of the individual. It is that simple really. Murder is an abrogation and derogation of someones rights, there fore murder is wrong. Theft is an abrogation and derogation of someones rights and thus it is wrong. Prohibition of alcohol or prostitution are not just laws because they do not seek to protect the rights of the individual and quite clearly ignore certain rights in order to claim any legitimacy. Laws that attempt to prevent natural human behavior are unjust laws. Most people in the United States today would agree that any attempt to legislate against dancing would be an unjust law. In spite of that, there are multitudes of laws that function in the very same way that an anti-dancing law would and blatantly disregard the rights of the people.
Us Declaration of Independence laws of nature?
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence during the Enlightenment Age. During this time, peoples were not changing their beliefs, but they were changing their attitudes. After you read paragraph one, you should notice that he mentions "Powers of the earth" which are the stars, moon, sun, trees, etc., and he mentions "Laws of Nature" which are laws that are entitled to men by God. So the answer to your question would be science and reason.
How useful is a constitution as a guide to political practice?
It is not a guide at all. It is the basic set of rules and Laws that tell how the Government may continue to create laws and enforce them. It is not a guide!!
What modern American values can be traced back to the great awakening and the enlightenment?
Scientific Experiments can be traced back to the enlightenment because Ben Franklin, a famous American Enlightenment Figure, conducted these experiments to discover the laws of nature. Questioning authority (respectfully) for better reasoning can be traced back to the Great Awakening because it was brought forth after the Great Awakening took place.
