[Dean's World] Aziz P: the State and Morality

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Posted by Aziz P:
the State and Morality
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1145462656.shtml


   Is the purpose of a State (synonymous here with Nation) to enforce a
   "Higher Law" ?

   I think it is not - to argue that the State is in the business of
   regulating morality seems to me to run counter to the idea that
   individuals are sovereign. I may be interpreting and projecting here,
   but individual sovereignity is the foundation (as I perceive it) of
   our own American Constitution - with explicit mention that the State
   is subservient to the Citizen, not the other way around.

   The State can not be answerable to Higher Law because that is
   fundamentally a personal testament, not a communal one.

   I am interested in others' views on this subject.