Michael Fleming responds to the article in my newsletter about leeway with this quotation:

“Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be. In Heaven there will be no law, and the lion will lie down with the lamb. The values of an unjust society will reflect themselves in an unjust law. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.”

Grant Gilmore, THE AGES OF AMERICAN LAW 110-111 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977).

Lovely. Thanks.

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