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As I discussed in a previous post, while the GDP of the United States has risen considerable over the past 30 years, an inproportionate portion of it has gone to the wealthiest fraction of the population.
Thoughts on Life Before the New Deal « Publius the Geek 2009
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If he is severely punished, it might cause future students to think twice about taking up law studies since such a minor mistake is given an inproportionate punishment.
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If he is severely punished, it might cause future students to think twice about taking up law studies since such a minor mistake is given an inproportionate punishment.
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If he is severely punished, it might cause future students to think twice about taking up law studies since such a minor mistake is given an inproportionate punishment.
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If he is severely punished, it might cause future students to think twice about taking up law studies since such a minor mistake is given an inproportionate punishment.
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But since man is ordained to an end of eternal happiness which is inproportionate to man’s natural faculty, as stated above,12 therefore it was necessary that, besides the natural and the human law, man should be directed to his end by a law given by God.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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