Now, natural law's most basic precept is this: to do what's good and avoid what's evil.

All right, who wants to read this month's precept?

I'm a precept over in computer science here.

and encouraging us by precept and example to keep up our spirits and march forward, as she said, "like stalwart soldiers." The other teachers, poor things, were generally themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others.

of being, in consequence, responsible for it before Our Lady criticism, it is not against us that the classic precept "Necdeus interceit" could be invoked.

Often I'm asked, "What advice do I have for young people?" And I share this precept which has carried me through every difficult question: choose the important over the urgent.

Philosophy is committed to self-knowledge, and its central precept, articulated by the earliest, greatest philosopher, Socrates, is just two words long: Know yourself.

Now we're talking about another Blackstonian precept that John Marshall, in a case called Marbury versus Madison, featured front and center, that for every right there should be a legal remedy in a court, that the power of the judicial power encompasses not merely the power to say what the law is, but

So your precept, your Silla, becomes the armed forces protecting you from being destroyed, protecting you from committing the crime, committing the transgression.

So it's permissible for federal courts to protect voting rights very vigorously in the 1960s, building on that same fundamental precept that after the Civil War, there's an important federal role in making sure that states meet very high standards of democracy and Republican government.