1. Joseph Story, and others who straddled the Christian and Liberal worlds, and used natural law arguments to defend traditional teachings on family law, charity law, criminal law, and other topics. What made Liberal thought distinctive, however, was its defense of natural law and natural rights on rational "self-evident" grounds. Hugo Grotius had paved the way early on with his "impious hypothesis" that natural law would exist "even if there is no God;John Locke;Madison repeated traditional views that humans were created by God,2019
2. The Changing Profile of the Natural Law
3. Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History