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![“[S]o far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
~ Thomas Paine “Common Sense"](https://a.mindlycdn.com/media_attachments/files/114/178/586/177/401/018/original/43be1984910fb1de.png "“[S]o far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
~ Thomas Paine “Common Sense\"")
Now there's an 18th-century text we should be invoking!
@JohnAutry The law itself upholds laws. Not morality not ethics and not justice. It holds a facimile that groups all circumstances together into the rigid lines of codified law. What happens then to the people lost within its grasp? Law perpetuates the ideas that set it in place to begin with. It validates land theft and erasure. It justifies pollution. It caters to corporations. Is it truly giving us freedom or is it an illusion?
@JohnAutry whilst I mostly agree with the writings of T Paine, I have to say this is flawed in that the law is made by government so it naturally becomes King in the sense of absolute ruler. The law has always protected the law maker rarely is it just and even less so does it protect the majority.