Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 365 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Just and Unjust Laws
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The idea
King's test: a just law squares with the moral law; an unjust law is out of harmony with it — difference made legal, binding the minority alone.
In practice
A statute drafted by those it exempts and enforced on those it silences fails King's test twice — on harmony and on sameness.
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