Sunday, July 14, 2013

QUOTATION: Unjust Law

Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.

--St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae