The various restrictions that travel under the label of legality follow naturally from Christian premises. But God's law violates all those restrictions. And God's law is likewise seen in Christian scripture as a source of inspiration, joy, and wisdom. It could not provide those benefits if it remained within rule-of-Iaw boundaries. Law can teach us how to live or it can send us to prison when we live especially badly. It cannot do both. As law covers ever more territory, it must become ever less lawlike. And twenty-first-century American law covers a very broad territory indeed. We suggest that its broad scope follows naturally from its high ambition. If our society is to recover the rule of law, it must be a more modest law that rules.
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