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Putting Senator Davies in Context
Gilmore, Grant
Gilmore, Grant
Abstract
Senator Davies, by his own testimony, stands convicted of having committed an original idea. The Nonprimacy of Statutes Act is something new under the sun. By way of analogy it is tempting to think of the first appearance of such major heresies as the ideas that the earth is round and revolves around the sun. The temptation must, however, be resisted. The size, shape and mobility of our planet have presumably always been much as they are today; there is no reason to believe that they will ever change appreciably, short of the apocalyptic moment when the laws of thermodynamics impose their final solution. But ideas about the law (or about legal systems) do not have such a comforting aura of eternal truth.