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natural law

noun as in unwritten law

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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.

The problem with gender essentialism is that even a solitary divergence suggests that the “natural law” is not, in fact, a law.

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This is a suppression of the natural law.

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Still, if any natural law applies to California, it is that what comes down will eventually go up.

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"An important component of this proposed natural law is the idea of 'selection for function,'" says Carnegie astrobiologist Dr. Michael L. Wong, first author of the study.

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