The word's power—and therefore its coherence, its licitness as language—is impossible to understand without a glance at the history of race-rooted subjugation in America.
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It can be debated but it is my opinion, my conviction, that we have reached the limit of the (moral) licitness of having and using nuclear weapons," he said. "Why?
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He insisted that the oath could legitimately be read as not contradicting the pope's "Supremacie in spirituall causes". The Pope, however, condemned the new oath soon afterwards. Blackwell, and some others, continued to defend the oath despite this. An international theological controversy developed concerning the licitness of the oath.
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Exodus 21:26-27 The Bible was cited as justification for slavery by defenders.Stringfellow, A Scriptural defense of slavery, 1856Raymund Harris, Scriptural researches on the licitness of the slave, (Liverpool: H. Hodgson, 1788) Abolitionists have also used text from the New Testament and the Exodus story in the Old Testament to argue for the manumission of slaves.
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From 1566 to 1572 he was involved in running Holy Ghost College, and in 1572 became president of Arras College. In 1576 he advised on the licitness of the Pacification of Ghent."Reijneri (Cornelis)", in Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, begun by A. J. van der Aa and continued by K.J.R. van Harderwijk and G.D.J. Schotel, vol.
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The Committee of Jewish Law consisted mainly of scholars who had little field experience, almost solely from the seminary's Talmudic department. They were greatly concerned with halakhic licitness and indifferent to the pressures exerted on the pulpit rabbis, who had to contend with an Americanized public which cared little for such considerations or for tradition in general. In 1935, the RA almost adopted a groundbreaking motion: Rabbi Louis Epstein offered a solution to the agunah predicament, a clause that would have had husbands appoint wives as their proxies to issue divorce. It was repealed under pressure from the Orthodox Union.
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According to Mackler, Lehmkuhl had accepted as a defensible theory the licitness of removing even an animated fetus from the womb as not necessarily killing it, but had rejected direct attacks on the fetus such as craniotomy.Mackler 2003, p. 123 Craniotomy was thus prohibited in 1884 and again in 1889. In 1895 the Holy See excluded the inducing of non-viable premature birth and in 1889 established the principle that any direct killing of either fetus or mother is wrong; in 1902 it ruled out the direct removal of an ectopic embryo to save the mother's life, but did not forbid the removal of the infected fallopian tube, thus causing an indirect abortion.
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However, the language expressed by bodies, in this context the language expressed during sexual intercourse, is so damaged by the use of artificial contraception that the conjugal act "ceases to be an act of love... [or] communion of persons" but rather is a mere bodily union. On the other hand, the licitness of natural family planning (NFP) methods is held to be evident from the structure of the human body, which has natural periods of fertility and infertility. The morality of these methods was literally designed into the body, and use of them, unlike use of artificial contraception, can actually improve the dialog between couples which is expressed through the language of the body. Throughout these speeches the main emphasis is on the intrinsic goodness of the marital act.
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