Notes on Charles E. Rice's '50 Questions on the Natural Law'

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"50 Questions on the Natural Law: What It Is and Why We Need It" by Charles E. Rice

• Cover design by: Roxanne Mei Lum

• Copyright Dates: © 1993, © 1995, © 1999

• Publisher: Ignatius Press, San Francisco

• ISBN: $978-0-89870-750-2$

• Library of Congress catalogue number: $99-73020$

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The Impact of Natural Law Thinking

Natural Law as a Check on Power

• Natural law theory is often controversial and unwelcome because it reminds popular majorities and ruling politicians that their power is limited.

• Professor Anton-Hermann Chroust of Notre Dame Law School observed that academics repeatedly declare natural law dead, but it