William Ernest Hocking Quote

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.


Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 76 - Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)


The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of...

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of...

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of...

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of...