Of the Effects of Law (Two Articles)
Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider the effects of law; under which head there are two points of inquiry:

(1) Whether an effect of law is to make men good?

(2) Whether the effects of law are to command, to forbid, to permit, and to punish, as the Jurist states?

whether there is a law
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