Click2Biography - Edgardo Mortara - Chapter 2

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>EDGARDO MORTARA:</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 2 - UNSETTLING QUESTIONS</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><UL> <li>If the law says a crime is not a crime, is the act a crime notwithstanding the law?</li></p> <p><li>If the act is still a crime, how is it punished? </li></p> <p><li>Who imposes punishment if the lawmakers are the lawbreakers? </li></p> <p><li>Can moral outrage work to change the law?</li></p></ul> <p align="justify">With that background, and those questions in mind, we begin the story of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, living in an Italian Papal State.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="mortara_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="mortara_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>