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The Conscience of Law is a long-form academic examination of the foundational condition without which law cannot exist: conscience. Moving beyond statute, procedure, and institutional authority, this work argues that law is not sustained by enforcement alone, but by its continuous alignment with moral jurisdiction. Where conscience is severed from authority, law collapses into mere power, and injury becomes normalized as governance. Drawing from theology, legal history, ecclesiastical equity, philosophy, and psychology, Jonathan Daniel Clements traces how the doctrine of no harm once operated as a binding limitation on power, long before modern legal systems displaced conscience with procedure. The book examines how delegated authority, statutory justification, and institutional policy gradually redefined harm as lawful, and how this shift fractured legitimacy at its core. Rather than treating these issues as theory, The Conscience of Law presents jurisdictional facts. It demonstrates that obligation cannot exist where compliance requires moral injury, and that no amount of procedural authorization can override the limits imposed by conscience. Through historical analysis and structural reasoning, the work reestablishes moral jurisdiction as the final authority against which all law must be measured. This book is not a critique from the margins, nor a call for reform through ideology. It is a reconstruction of law at its root, restoring conscience as the condition of legitimacy and remedy as the answer to injury. Written in rigorous long-form academic prose, The Conscience of Law is intended for scholars, jurists, theologians, and readers seeking to understand why law fails when it abandons the very boundary that makes it law. Where authority listens, law endures. Where it does not, law withdraws. This book explains why.

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