Greed, and more broadly, self-interest, is the motive for inventing property; but we need a further explanation why we think of justice (adherence to the rules of ownership) as virtuous, and injustice (their violation) as vicious.
Yet in the inverted world of Russian justice, adherence to such unorthodox standards was not his undoing.
Foremost among them is a candidate's commitment to social justice, and adherence to a framework that enforces the responsibility of the rich to aid the needy.
In 1940, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, who later served on the Supreme Court, addressed a conference of U.S. attorneys, attempting to distinguish between justice and the rigid adherence to legal code.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrOne "On the Relation of the Individual to the State," (1848) in which he claimed that the authority of the state depends upon the consent of the governed, and furthermore that adherence to justice transcends adherence to law.
Article fifteen explicitly states "That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles".
Nowhere, however, was the Virginia Declaration of Rights more explicit about the responsibility of government than in section 15: "That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles".
But we must all remember that justice is a value, the adherence to which includes seeking the best outcome for the American people.
On the other hand, adherence to social justice values predicted the non-expression of prejudice.
The objective of the present study was to determine whether In vivo nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) sampling approach increases NRT adherence among criminal justice smokers during a subsequent quit attempt.
A more or less inconsistent willingness of rulers to tie their own hands by scrupulous adherence to procedural justice while yet being substantively unjust, is of course psychologically possible.
