Law of the Land
The phrase law of the land is a legal term, equivalent to the Latin lex terrae (or legem terrae in the accusative case). It refers to all of the laws in force within a country or region, including both statute law and common law.
The phrase law of the land is a legal term, equivalent to the Latin lex terrae (or legem terrae in the accusative case). It refers to all of the laws in force within a country or region, including both statute law and common law.
Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided. In theoretical terms, the idea of “sovereignty”, historically, from Socrates to Thomas Hobbes, has always necessitated a moral imperative on the entity exercising it.
Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided. In theoretical terms, the idea of “sovereignty”, historically, from Socrates to Thomas Hobbes, has always necessitated a moral imperative on the entity exercising it.
Sharia Law
Sharia law, (Arabic: شريعة šarīʿah, IPA: [ʃaˈriːʕa], “legislation”; also spelled shariah, sharīʿah; also known as Islamic law, قانون إسلامي qānūn ʾIslāmī ) is the moral code and religious law of Islam.
Sharia law, (Arabic: شريعة šarīʿah, IPA: [ʃaˈriːʕa], “legislation”; also spelled shariah, sharīʿah; also known as Islamic law, قانون إسلامي qānūn ʾIslāmī ) is the moral code and religious law of Islam.
The definitions, above, are verbatim quotations from Wikipedia (granted, not the absolute authority, but it will get you started). Just reading the definitions gives you (or me, at least) the sense of the real problems that are hatched when allowing any exceptions to the Law of the Land in favor of Shariah. When this creeps into our “Law of the Land,” we begin to lose sovereignty. I believe this problem is much more deserving of research and extensive article than the one you threw out there to fill a couple inches of news column.
In fact, the powers behind the fight to allow Sharia Law in this country actually run counter to what most Liberals believe in. Big money, the shadiest of capitalism motives, are in favor of importing, or at least tolerating, Shariah Law, particularly when it applies to Shariah banking. Shariah banking is a subject unto itself, something I’ve seen the networks touch fleetingly, but a large part of this movement. In any case, making exceptions to the Law of the Land, whether for Mormons, Christians, Muslims, or Pedophiles (the latter becoming a special group in Europe, believe it or not), is the beginning of the end for a nation’s sovereignty. It won’t happen in the Middle East, but it may here.
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