Dr. Dorothy Nelson
Honorable Judge
The Baha’i Perspective on Law, Language, and Ethics
Dr. Nelson reviews some of the misuses of State law, such as in Nazi Germany, where the State required the repression and eventual genocide of an entire category of people. For the individual then the question arises: ‘When then is it right to disobey a law?’
She enumerates and describes the three fundamental bases of natural law theory; and states that nearly every past civilization relied in some manner upon natural law to maintain the order and harmony of the people of that civilization.
"The prime thesis of this paper is that a proper definition and understanding of the theological theory of natural law will lead us to the inescapable conclusion that universal God-given principles have been provided to mankind in each age for the development of civilization and that the rules fo the present age stand for a global and all-inclusive system of international law.”