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- Title
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF JUDGES: HOW CHRISTIAN THOUGHT SHAPED THE AMERICAN JUDICIARY.
- Authors
MCLAREN VILLERS, ELISE
- Abstract
This Essay continues a discussion on the authority of courts, executives, and legislators to govern nations where the law diverges from necessity or morality. In a previous Comment, P. Elise McLaren, Answering the Call: A History of the Emergency Power Doctrine in Texas and United States, 53 ST. Mary's LJ. 287 (2022), I asked whether necessity or emergency ever supersedes the law, i.e., whether "emergency powers" exist. In this Essay, I ask whether the government is held accountable to a force other than the people themselves, namely, religious influence. As was done with respect to emergency powers, I ask whether a religious influence is beneficial, detrimental, or neutral, and secondarily whether it is necessary.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JUDGES; CHRISTIANITY &; law; AUTHORITY; RELIGION &; law
- Publication
St. Mary's Law Journal, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 3, p609
- ISSN
0581-3441
- Publication type
Article