RE: What is Justice?
January 4, 2012 at 12:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2012 at 12:04 am by Minimalist.)
Quote:So the definition of justice doesn't determine the 'justness' of a law? If it doesn't, then what does determine if something is 'just'?
In 1789 this was written into the US Constitution:
Art. 1 Sec. 2 Para 3
Quote:Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
It was not only the law - it was the highest law of the land - that blacks counted as 3/5 of a person.
It took 90 years and a civil war to get rid of an unjust law.
