They do this with such brazen skill
that our attorneys are often jealous of them.
Attorney Christopher St. German wrote the legal treatise "Doctor
and Student", in which he deems the law of natural reason to be
supreme and eternal. The law of God and the law of man, as
enunciated by the church and royalty, merely supplement the law of
natural reason and may change from time to time. Examples of the
law of reason are: It is good to be loved. Evil is to be avoided.
Do onto others as you would have them do unto you. Do nothing
against the truth. Live peacefully with others. Justice is to be
done to every man. No one is to wrong another. A trespasser should
be punished. From these is deduced that a man should love his
benefactor. It is lawful to put away force with force. It is
lawful for every man to defend himself and his goods against an
unlawful power.
Like his father, Henry VIII dominated Parliament. He used this
power to reform the church of England in the 1530's. The
Protestant reformation cause, started in Germany in 1517 by Martin
Luther posting his thesis, had become identified with Henry's
efforts to have his marriage of eighteen years to the virtuous
Catherine annulled so he could marry a much younger woman: Anne.
His purported reason was to have a son. The end of his six
successive wives was: annuled, beheaded, died; annuled, beheaded,
survived. Henry VIII was egotistical, arrogant, and self-
indulgent.
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