“For as God, when he created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the…direction of that motion; so, when he created man, and endued him with freewill to conduct himself in all parts of life, he laid down certain immutable laws of human nature, whereby that freewill is in some degree regulated and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws.”
“Such among others are these principles: that we should live honestly, should hurt nobody, and should render to every one his due..”
William Blackstone
Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)