emphasis in chapter 6 is on civil law as a determination of the civil lawgivers and on how their determinations must reflect what is righteous and what conduces to good. A civil law is righteous if it flows rationally from the natural law, but this does not necessarily make it a good law. Each law must be suitable, given the circumstances and characteristics of the community. Thus, deliberation about civil law requires two things: a consideration of what is just in itself and a consideration of whether the law in question would conduce concretely to the good of a community. So civil law is not
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