Monday, July 25, 2011

Blackstone, Briefly, on the Authority of Natural Law

“This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.  It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.”

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