‘The freedom or bondage of men is not always the result of the actions of tyrants but is the product of the habitual rebellion to law. While violation of the laws and customs of governments may bring about incarceration it is the rebellion to the law that preexisted men and is not subject to the opinions of men that determines the freedom or bondage of men. That law is the Law of Nature.

The Law of Nature, Natural law, Right Reason, Divine Will, the Will of God, the Word of God or the Logos of Christ are often seen as convertible phrases. While that law preexisted man kind, man is subject to it just as he is subject to the laws of physics.

Understanding that law, how it works, and its limitation and powers allows mankind to seek “the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle.” (Declaration of Independence)

The Law of Nature or Natural Law is defined as, “The divine will, or the dictate of right reason, showing the moral deformity or moral necessity that there is in any act, according to its suitableness or un-suitableness to a reasonable nature. Sometimes used of the law of human reason, in contradistinction to the revealed law, and sometimes of both, in contradistinction to positive law.”’