Kelsen warned against the phenomenon of "authoritarian legalism," where rulers manipulate the law not to safeguard democratic order but to subvert it. Tinubu’s proclamation on Rivers State ...

What message does it send when judges and lawyers lionise former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, who was found to have ...

Jesus teaches the primacy of the law, but it is not the letter of the law that matters — literalism is the dehumanizing aspect of all bureaucracy — but the spirit i.e. justice for all, and ...

Not only do many believe it has provided a barrier to intelligent participation, but Vox Clara proved to be preoccupied with a pre-Vatican II practice of setting rules and legalism. The heavy ...

What about Psalm 119 which is all about following rules and precepts as a way of showing one's love for God? It is true that we need to be on guard against legalism and petty and irrational rules that ...

Parenting books have been doing it for years, but it is overflowing into other areas of our Christian faith with everything from marriage, to how we read the bible being prescribed by a set of rules .

When we do sin, we know immediately that we need to get right with God. The struggling conscience is clogged with rules and regulations, and its spirit of legalism makes us critical of our performance ...

Indonesia's Parliament passed a controversial revision of military law, allowing active military officers to serve in more government positions without resigning. This change, supported by parties ...