Calvin, on Judah’s command to Onan, his son, to go into his brother’s wife. “Go in unto thy brother’s wife.” Although no law had hitherto been prescribed concerning brother’s marriages, …
Stare Decisis to the Left
Robert Gagnon, on Supreme Court precedent and Roe: “Spare us left-wing pretense of a love affair with stare decisis (“to stand by things decided,” the authority of precedent) as regards …
Nehemiah Coxe on the Law in the Garden
First, God made him a reasonable creature and endued him with original righteousness, which was a perfection necessary to enable him to answer the end of his creation. Eminently in …