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Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (New York: Quill, William Morrow, 1987), 273 pp., p. 13.

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Robert D. Crane, "Moral Law for Cyber-Civilization: A Tawhid Cybernetic Framework for Applying Islamic Thought," in Crane, Shaping the Future: Challenge and Response (Santa Fe, N. M.: The Islamic Institute for Strategic Thought, 1997), pp. 141-159.

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See especially Chapter Three, "Beauty," in Robert M. Augros and George N. Stanciu, The New Story of Science: How the New Cosmology is Reshaping Our View of Mind, Art, God … and Ourselves (Lake Bluff, IL: Regnery Gateway, 1984, republished by Bantam Books, 1986), pp. 37-52.

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Sowell, A Conflict of Visions, footnote 1 supra, pp. 13-16.

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Ibid., p. 17.

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Ibid., pp. 20-22.

7-

Rene Williamson, "Constitutionalism and Transcendence," a review of the books, Belief, Faith, and Reason, edited by John Howard, and Essays on Christianity and Political Philosophy, edited by George W.Rene Williamson, "Constitutionalism and Transcendence," a review of the books, Belief, Faith, and Reason, edited by John Howard, and Essays on Christianity and Political Philosophy, edited by George W. Carey and James V. Shall, S. J., in Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, vol. 29, no, 2, Spring 1985, pp. 179-181.

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Id

9-

Ibid., p. 180.

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Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order, 3rd ed. (Washington, D. C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991), p. 6.

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Ibid., p. 9.

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Robert D. Crane, "The Search for Justice and the Quest for Virtue," in Muzaffar Haleem and Betty Batul Bowman, eds., The Sun Is Rising in the West (Beltswille, MD: Amana Publications, 1999), pp. 141-166.

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See Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, "Islam and the Medieval Progenitors of Austrian Economics," Minaret of Freedom Institute Preprint Series 95-1, and "Islam, Market Economy, and the Rule of Law," Preprint 96-1, 4323 Rosedale Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814.

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See John Austin, Lectures on Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Positive Law, and The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, newly published, respectively, by the Scholarly Press, St. Clair, MI, 1977, and by Cambridge University Press, 1995. See Jeremy Bentham, Of Laws in General (London: Athlone Press, 1970).

15-

For an introductory discussion and bibliography on the pros and cons of legal positivism, see Kenneth Einar Himma, "Legal Positivism," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/legalpos.htm. See also the anti-positivist, H. L. A Hart, "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals," 71 Harvard Law Review 593 (1958), and "Positivism and Fidelity to Law - A Reply to Professor Hart," 71 Harvard Law Review 630 (1958).

16-

Russell Hittinger, "Introduction," in Russell Kirk, Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution (Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing Company, 1997), pp. xvii and xix-xxxi.

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Kirk, Rights and Duties, ibid., p. 31.

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Ibid., p. 15.

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Ibid., p. 109.

20-

Ibid., p. 68.

21-

Ibid., pp. 105 and 102-103.

22-

Ibid., p. 128.

23-

Ibid., p. 128.

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See the textual discussion on pages 17-18 above and footnote 12.

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Kirk, Rights and Duties, ibid., pp. 147-148.

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