Can Gods Holy Day be honored in the spirit of Grace without the spirit of legalism as in the letter of the Law?

The "spirit" of the law is the meaning behind why it was enacted. "The spirit of the law is the idea or ideas that the people who made the law wanted to have effect." http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/id... The "letter" of the law is "The strict and exact force of the language used in a statute..." http://legal-dictionary.

Thefreedictionar... These are rarely the same. For example, the RICO Act was passed in 1970 to combat the Mafia, but "its application has been more widespread....Violations of the RICO laws can be alleged civil lawsuit cases or for criminal charges. In these instances charges can be brought against individuals or corporations in retaliation for said individuals or corporations working with law enforcement."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_I... So a law whose "spirit" was to fight the Mafia, has language in it (called "the letter of the law") that allows it to be used in civil cases against individuals who work with the police! It's called the "letter" of the law because upon reading it, and thoroughly understanding what the legislators ACTUALLY wrote as opposed to what their INTENTIONS (spirit) were, a law can do many thing by its "letter" than it can by its "spirit". Last year, when the 2nd Amendment gun laws in D.C. were overturned by the Supreme Court, those who wa a) because the "letter" of the law talked about how the militia needed guns, and b) because we no longer have militia c) therefore, people who are not in a militia don't have the right to guns.

(It's much more complicated, but that is the "spirit" of the way the case went down.) The Supreme Court said that the spirit of the 2nd Amendment was not about the militia even though the militia is talked about. Instead, the Court said that the spirit of the law was the intention by the authors of the law to allow all citizens to own guns. When Judges judge a law by its "spirit", in other words, by the way the legislators intended it to be understood and used even if that was 220 years ago, the interpretation is called "Originalism".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism.

The spirit of the law is meant as the law's purpose and not necessarily exactly what it says. Legalism would be doing exactly as a law says instead of following the reason the law was made.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.