- If the law says a crime is not a crime, is the act a crime notwithstanding the law?
If the act is still a crime, how is it punished?
Who imposes punishment if the lawmakers are the lawbreakers?
Can moral outrage work to change the law?
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.