“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.” WellsLooksStatesLightLawSocialViewsModernOughtEmptyCommandSovereignSovereigntySocial ChangeRapidsPrecedentLooking To The Future Author:William Ernest Hocking
“Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.” ReasonLawPrinciplesCreativeConditionsPresumption Author:William Ernest Hocking
“The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.” GivingIdeasLawResultsQualityFailingConcrete Author:William Ernest Hocking
