| 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. |
| 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. |
| This problem of the efficacy of natural law is strategically important to the pro-life movement. |
| This natural law is the foundation of criminalistics and is the motivation behind the acquisition and analysis of trace evidence. |
| Instead, evil becomes abstract and inescapable, defiant of natural law and irreducible to a single bad person or wrong action. |
