natural law
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This is well-trod philosophical ground — referencing “negative” and “positive” rights, natural law and all the usual back and forth about originalism and whether the Constitution is living or static.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Mr. Persico declares Locke “one of liberalism’s founding fathers” for weaving all of these strands together—“the image of God, natural law, reason and rights”—in his political philosophy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
This is a suppression of the natural law.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
Still, if any natural law applies to California, it is that what comes down will eventually go up.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
