The only reliable basis for sound Government and Just human relations is Natural Law.

Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) confirmed the wisdom of the American Founding Fathers.   Natural law is the only reliable basis for a stable society.   The foundation of a just society must use the basis of God's revealed law.   These laws constitute a moral code clearly distinguishing right from wrong.   In the "Commentaries on the Laws of England", Blackstone propounded the generally accepted idea that "when the Supreme Being formed the universe" he organized it and then "impressed certain principles upon that matter, from which it can never depart, and without which it would cease to be."   The law of nature is the will of God expressed in the orderly arrangement of the universe.  There are laws for "human" nature as revealed by God.  The laws of the universe, or Natural Law, must be learned through scientific investigation.   Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.        

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)  studied law in Rome and philosophy in Athens.  He became the leading lawyer of his time and rose to the highest office of state, the Roman Consul.  Cicero discovered the touchstone for good laws, sound government and the long range formula for happy human relations.  Cicero greatly influenced our founding fathers.  He authored "The Republic" and "Laws".   His writings projected the promise of a future society based on Natural Law that helped the founders envision a commonwealth of prosperity and justice.

To Cicero, the building of a society on principles of Natural Law was nothing more nor less than recognizing and identifying the rules of "right conduct" with the laws of the Supreme Creator of the universe.  Once the reality of the Creator is clearly identified in the mind, the only intelligent approach to government, justice and human relations is in terms of the laws which the Supreme Creator established.   The Creator's order of things is called Natural Law.  A presupposition of Natural Law is man's reasoning power is a special dispensation of the Creator.  Man shares with his Creator the quality of using a rational approach to solving problems.

True law is the right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting;  it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.  To alter this law is a sin.   Repeal is not allowed.  It is impossible to abolish.  It is the code of "right reason" from the Creator.   Natural Law cannot be abandoned by legislators.  In its absolute reality, it is basic in its principles, comprehensible to the human mind, and totally correct and morally right in its general operation.

To the Founding Fathers as well as to Blackstone, John Locke, Baron Charles de Montesquieu and Cicero, this was the monumental discovery.   The complete subject is covered in "The 5000 Year Leap" by W. Cleon Skousen.

America suffers from too much Law and Regulations

President James Madison emphasized that the law must be simple and understandable so that all the people can learn and teach it.  “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood;  if they be repealed or revised before they are promulagated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow.   Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known or less fixed?”

The Human tendency to make laws complex in Society.

Our the centuries in ancient Israel, a class of so-called learned men arose who made the laws complex and multi-faceted.  They introduced a wide variety of interpretations and applications which required the scrutiny of Talmudic scholars to defend a person before the judges.   When the skillful ones confronted Jesus and tried to trip him up, he said that their scribes, Pharisees, and lawyers had “laden men with burdens grievous to be borne.”  He called them hypocrites and whited sepulchers because they didn’t even live according to the laws they accused others of violating.  Even worse, they made their livingby presenting themselves as necessary interpreters of the complex laws they had invented.