St. Thomas More’s final words, “The King’s good servant, but God’s first,” encapsulate the beau ideal of integralist jurisprudence. He died a martyr for the rights of the Church. During his life, he vigorously and consistently defended law as a servant of the common good, both in his conception of natural law and in his everyday opinions and reforms as common-law lawyer and Lord Chancellor.
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