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Sep 5Liked by Adrian Vermeule

Excellent text and analysis! As a great Brazilian writer once said, 'all politics that is not tradition is certainly treason.' The same applies to law, which, as rightly noted, is closely connected to politics. In a sense, all the Americas share the ius commune tradition, each in its own way. Unfortunately, to varying extents, this tradition has increasingly been abandoned in favor of liberal and progressive treason. That’s why works like this, which aim to recover the classical roots of law, are so important—not out of mere historical curiosity or originalist attachment, but because they represent the true form of law that should be lived and applied. May God grant these initiatives success.

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Are you kidding me? Have you seen the bakers? They need 70+ hours per week to work off those extra layers of belly fat.

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It seems to me that there must be articulated the real definitions of freedom and liberty. Can that be put into law?

It seems that Natural law comes from the life of the individual and everything created by the individual. Therefore freedom must be related to an individual's ability to act and dispose of his property without restricting the same in others. Anything else is not freedom but license.

As for the law; is it not to administer justice or to prevent injustice? And the common good is nothing more than the good of individuals collected? The common good is the responsibility of society as was observed by Toqueville in America in the early nineteenth century.

We have addicted our responsibility as a free people and accepted the police power of the state in the name of the common good. And now their power in unlimited.

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