| The Southern judiciary countered the argument of natural law by evoking the argument that, within a democracy, positive law trumped natural law. |
| Such interconnection is traditionally asserted in the principle of causality or natural law. |
| He was certainly no British doctrinal conservative, looking to God, natural law, loyalty and duty. |
| For example, Albert the Great remarked that the more general a precept is, the more properly it may be said to belong to the natural law. |
| For Elizabethans, positive law derives from natural law, which itself flows from the divine will. |
| Once unhinged from the higher natural law, the positive law of our legislatures and our courts became like paper money unhinged from gold. |
