"It is true that when medieval writers spoke of natural law as being discoverable by reason, they meant that the best …"

"Whether something falls within the domain of ‘‘law’’ is, for a natural lawyer, at least partially or nominally determ…"

"It is not an accident that men like Machiavelli, and Hobbes, whose aim is to remove all restraints from the actions o…"

"When most people speak of natural law, what they have in mind is the contention that morality can be derived from hum…"

"It offends reason to believe that a well-established natural law can admit of exceptions. A natural law must hold eve…"

"The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly "radical" ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might gross…"

"No objection can be made to these voluntary associations upon the ground that they would lack that knowledge of justi…"

"Children learn the fundamental principles of natural law at a very early age. Thus they very early understand that on…"

"But if justice be a natural principle, then it is necessarily an immutable one; and can no more be changed—by any pow…"

"If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were …"