{"id":3312,"date":"2024-03-27T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:49:31","slug":"ancient-legal-maxims-and-modern-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Legal Maxims and Modern Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until the middle of the nineteenth century books were still being published which appeared to regard the ancient maxims as central pillars of the\u00a0 law.&#8217; The teaching of the law was\u00a0organized around them. They were cited reverentially in court.\u00a0Since that time the maxims have steadily declined in importance.\u00a0From guiding principles, they became interesting illustrations and have now all but disappeared from legal literature.\u00a0I believe that\u00a0the time is ripe for such a restoration for a number of reasons but\u00a0especially because of a resurgence of interest among lawyers in\u00a0morals in general and human rights in particular. The essence of the\u00a0maxims is a very lofty and humane ethic; the current revived interest in\u00a0human and environmental values might be considered a rebirth of the\u00a0spirit of the maxims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ancient-Legal-Maxims-and-Modern-Human-Rights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until the middle of the nineteenth century books were still being published which appeared to regard the ancient maxims as central pillars of the\u00a0 law.&#8217; The teaching of the law was\u00a0organized around them. They were cited reverentially in court.\u00a0Since that time the maxims have steadily declined in importance.\u00a0From guiding principles, they became interesting illustrations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeoplesoperationrestoration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}