July 3, 2012 3:21PM

Natural Law in the Nursery

By Walter Olson

“It’s my toy” = property law
“You promised” = contract law
“He hit me first” = criminal law
“Daddy said I could” = constitutional law

—Examples that the late Prof. Harold Berman of Harvard and Emory liked to invoke to show how children, from a very early age, grasp some of the basic principles of law. [John McGinnis, Liberty and Law]

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