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obligation depends on the will of the lawgiver, andthat tax laws that are preceptive in one country may be only penal inanother. (See Merkelbach, _Summa Theologiae Moralis_ II,n. hip in the Freemasons is not acceptable; he must be free to actas sponsor, and hence religious and clerics , the words of God found inSacred Scripture), but to testimony to be given about the presentmatter.

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