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For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up

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in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law .

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[Romans 13:9-10, Bible, NKJV]

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In order to sue someone in court for an injury to your private rights under the common law, you must be able to 6 demonstrate an injury. This is called “standing”. You don’t have the right or the jurisdiction to interfere with others and 7 drag them into court until THEY have injured you and thereby disturbed your right to be left alone. That’s what the 8 Readings on the History and System of Common Law book above implies. 9

3.2 Justice can easily be perverted when it is defined as “give every man his due” 10

This section is prompted by the following question appearing in our Member Forums: 11

Ministry Introduction: Your Definition of "Justice"

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After advising a friend to review materials regarding the Introduction to your Ministry, she raises a valid point on the “Legal definition of Justice”. According to your Form: #12.014 , It is stated that the legal definition of

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justice is the right to simply be left alone.

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Her concerns as well as mine are these:

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1. After clicking the link and reading the entire page including Black’s Law Dictionary, we didn’t find

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anywhere where the “legal definition” of Justice i s the right to be left alone.

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2. After researching the bible, hoping to discover even biblical law that implies justice as simply the right to be

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left alone, I came up empty handed there as well.

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3. No legal dictionary has this meaning, and it appears on the surface that this statement is purely driven by your contempt of the government. Not that that’s a bad thing, however, it doesn’t reflect “truth” and truth is

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justice.

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I address these issues because that statement seems a bit misleading to the average person whose reading your material for the first time, and might be deterred from moving forward on the Path to Freedom if in fact there is

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no way to prove the author’s perspective of it.

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As a member subscriber, I understand the mission at hand, and probably share the same sentiment as the author, however, I feel it my duty to at least address it, as it might be a hindrance to those who are willing to

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learn from and be a part of this ministry.

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[SEDM Member Forum 9.4, SOURCE: http://sedm.org/forums/topic/ministry-introduction-your-definition-of-

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First of all, the au thor of the above appears to have missed the definition of “justice” in the context of the common law that 32 we provided in the previous section: 33

PAULSEN, ETHICS (Thilly's translation), chap. 9.

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“ Justice, as a moral habit, is that tendency of the will and mode of conduct which refrains from disturbing the lives and interests of others, and, as far as possible, hinders such interference on the part of others. This virtue springs from the individual's respect for his fellows as ends in themselves and as his co equals. The different spheres of interests may be roughly classified as follows: body and life; the family, or the extended individual life; property, or the totality of the instruments of action; honor, or the ideal existence; and finally freedom, or the possibility of fashioning one's life as an end in itself. The law defends these different spheres, thus giving rise to a corresponding number of spheres of rights, each being protected by a prohibition. . . . To violate the rights, to interfere with the interests of others, is injustice. All injustice is ultimately directed against the life of the neighbor; it is an open avowal that the latter is not an end in itself, having the same value as the individual's own life. The general formula of the duty of justice may therefore be stated as follows: Do no wrong yourself, and permit no wrong to be done, so far as lies in your power; or, expressed positively: Respect and

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protect the right.”

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[Readings on the History and System of the Common Law, Second Edition, Roscoe Pound, 1925, p. 2]

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