And so there's a powerful incentive to embrace a conception of justice or of rights that doesn't require the society as a whole to pass judgment, one way or another, on those hotly contested moral and religious questions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the most right wing and religiously conservative government in Israel's history, says his overhaul is required to restore the balance between the government and the judiciary.
The word holiday originally meant " holy day, " signifying an important day on the religious calendar. Today, however, the word has nothing to do with religion.
The Spanish recognised the religious significance of the courts and of course wanted to replace the old local pagan religion with their new, superior, Catholic one.