Yet even with the extraordinary legal maneuvering, involving issues no less weighty than constitutional law and the disenfranchisement of minorities, the race managed to amuse, befuddle and entertain.
He treats the attack on the law as weighty and respect-worthy, and then demolishes it.
Eastwood suggests the possibility that private experience and mass media may deal better with the phenomena than do the leaders of religions that have elaborated vast and weighty mythologies and legends and laws on the basis of that intuition.
As the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley of Iowa should be obsessing over the Constitution, the rule of law, and other weighty matters.
Not until the late 1960s did the discipline's ideas begin to influence mainstream economics.In this section The law is an ass Three's company Better news in East Asia Latin America seeks shelter Control freaks An electronic bolt from the blue Marsh attacks ReprintsAs the weighty new dictionary amply illustrates, law and economics is now a substantial subject.
More specifically, taking away the weighty issues of breaking the law, safe sex practices, dollar amounts, and a call girl named Kristen, is it worse for a spouse to cheat with prostitutes, as Eliot Spitzer seems to have done, or with "a number" of girlfriends over years, as Governor David A. Paterson revealed today?
"You tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith.
"Woe to you... for you have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith".
And as we do, let's keep in mind Jesus' admonition against tithing mint, dill, and cumin while neglecting "the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith" (Matthew 23:23).
The Bible addresses all such persons as "scribes, pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith".
This the same Jesus who criticized leaders of the religious establishment for meticulously tithing mint and cumin while neglecting the weightier matters of the law, the essence of which he said was to love God with all one's being and one's neighbor as oneself.
