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Statute vs Law
Law:a binding custom or practice of a community
Statute: legislated rule of society which has the force of law.
Society: a number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine, and act for a common goal.
Law is unwritten, do not kill, do not steal etc...
Statutes are given the force of law via our consent. Silence is considered consent. We must volunteer to have statutes apply to us.
Law is unwritten, do not kill, do not steal etc...
I agree. I can not find evidence of any laws, written or unwritten, that all men are obligated to obey without question. Since the Constitution only exists to bind those who swear to it, what laws apply to those who created the Constitution and the government?
ENTER RELIGION
If people can accept anything they want to be law, what do they tend to accept? I have found that most people accept RELIGION as law. This can be dangerous, since the religions seem to be completely fabricated or are grossly perverted from their pure beginnings. The intentions of those who would fabricate or pervert a religion are revealed when one realizes this. Religion is used as a method of controlling the people, via the writings which the people accept as law.
For example, Common law is derived from the Bible. This makes me somewhat wary of it, regardless of its initial advantages. It is of some relief to me to understand the below to be true:
If
...the sovereign is the source of the law
and
...all men are equal before the law
then
...no law applies to us until we consent to it.
So we aren't forced to obey any law, Common law included. (However, I like its simplicity and sensibility, and so I accept its three laws.) We can toss all the crazy religious laws out, since they can't be trusted. No man can speak for the creator, at least not until he or she provides evidence of the creator's delegation. (They'll most likely just point to a collection of writings, which is not very good evidence.) Can it be that there are no laws at all? Well, it seems that there is...
Question: Is there any power higher than the sovereign that can compel the sovereign to obey its laws?
First, take a look at the chain of creation below:
creator-->human-->government
The created cannot control the creator (without the use of force or trickery).
The only law that we must obey without our consent is law from the creator itself. Who or what is this mysterious creator? What laws are we forced to obey? Its all around you, in various forms. I hope you can see it when you look out the window. What do you see? Nature, right? Does NATURE have any laws that you are forced to obey? YES!
When you trip, you fall down. When you touch something that is hot, you get burned. When you don't eat, you die. Are these laws of nature? Does it make sense then, that nature is our creator, and it is the laws of nature that we are forced to obey?
The corrected chain of creation:
nature-->human-->government
Well, that removes quite a bit of man-made restrictions, doesn't it? You can do anything you want within the boundaries of nature. Are there any penalties for breaking any of the laws of nature?
Another question: Is it acceptable for humans to create laws to govern themselves at all? Is there any occasion where the laws of nature are not good enough?
