Measure Z sought to make enforcement of marijuana laws -- all laws, not just those relating to medical marijuana -- the lowest priority of local law enforcement.
While even so law-oriented a thinker as Hobbes has a good deal to say about virtue, the ethical writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries predominantly favor a rule- or law-governed understanding of morals, giving priority to laws of nature or principles of duty.
Match-fixing is way down the list of priorities for law enforcement, which is why you hear advocates for sport to have its own untouchables – a team of global investigators who can sniff out and tackle corruption in all its forms.
Targeting efficiency or connectedness of wildlife trafficking networks is a high priority for law enforcement authorities.
Considerable interpretive finesse, for instance, is required to explain Kant's stark insistence on the priority of principles and law over the good in the second Critique.
Lange does return to declarations in favour of constructing ideals, but gives no further explanation of how we are supposed to find ethical ends, or a moral law, that guides the construction of these ideals, nor, for that matter, what problem in specific lies behind the above mentioned "question of the a priority of the moral law" (Lange 1873 75).
Tracking the stolen funds from taxpayers around the world and retrieving them to the impoverished taxpayers must become a major priority for the rule of law nations.
"On our part, we will be extremely vigorous in our pursuit of good governance priorities, including the rule of law and the fight against corruption," he said.
Moreover, state law enforcement professionals generally focus on traffic safety and may have fewer competing priorities than other types of law enforcement professionals.
On November 27th Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, did what he should have done long ago: he announced a series of measures aimed at making the rule of law a priority of his administration.
