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donoso cortes
schmitt

>>11470669
>Well, now, as this fallibility is a fact, it follows that in this matter of penalty all governments are incompetent, because all are fallible.

>One can only be accused of crime by him who can accuse him of sin, and he only can impose penalties for the one, who can impose them for the other. Governments are not competent to impose a penalty on man, except in quality of delegates of God; and human law has power only when it is the commentary of the divine law. The negation of God and of His law on the part of governments, is equal to the negation of themselves. To deny the divine and affirm the human law, to affirm crime and deny sin, to deny God and affirm any government whatever, is to affirm what is denied; and to deny what is affirmed is to fall into a palpable and evident contradiction. Then the blast of revolutions begins to blow, which will soon restore the empire of logic which presides at the evolution of events, suppressing human contradictions with an absolute and inexorable affirmation, or with an absolute and peremptory negation.

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>>9596126
y no donoso cortes tho

>tfw secretly hoping this becomes a thread about based Catholic intellectuals