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标题：INTEGRATING THE LAW OF THE RIO CHAMA THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL ONTOLOGIES OF THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE BASIN
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作者：Colin McKenzie ; Colin McKenzie
期刊名称：Natural Resources Journal
印刷版ISSN：0028-0739
出版年度：2021
卷号：61
期号：2
页码：252-329
语种：English
出版社：University of New Mexico, School of Law
摘要：Terror is lawfulness, if law is the law of the movement of some suprahuman force, Nature or History. * * * If the essence of government is defined as lawfulness, and if it is understood that laws are the stabilizing forces in the public affairs of men (as indeed it always has been since Plato invoked Zeus, the god of the boundaries, in his Laws), then the problem of movement of the body politic and the actions of its citizens arises. Lawfulness sets limitations to actions, but does not inspire them; the greatness, but also the perplexity of laws in free societies is that they only tell what one should not, but never what one should do. The necessary movement of a body politic can never be found in its essence if only because this essence—again since Plato—has always been defined with a view to its permanence. Duration seemed one of the surest yardsticks for the goodness of government.