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The men that drafted the United States Constitution acknowledged that human government eventually degenerates into tyranny apart from three related sources of law. The concept of natural law stems from the recognition that everything in the universe, including mankind, reveals something of the character of its Creator.

The concept of natural law is foreign to many of our modern scientists, educators, lawyers and even theologians due to the fact that much of society’s modern belief system is founded on the premise that everything happens randomly and that reason itself has nothing to do with the processes that we observe in our environment. Thus, according to many modern law professors, law is whatever the courts deem it to be.  Our forefathers recognized that rights originate in our Creator, not in human government; thus, some rights are inalienable.

A second source of law for the Founders was the law of Scripture. For years, it has been conventional wisdom to declare that the men that drafted the U.S. Constitution were deists; i.e., they believed that that a divine intelligence created the universe and then set it to operate like a clock without any intervention on the part of the Creator. The facts show that most of the Founders believed that the God of the Bible wants to be known by mankind and rewards those that diligently seek Him; i.e., the Creator presented by Scripture.

The Founders believed that the Scripture reveals things that God wants us to know about Him and about how to relate to God and each other. People that declare that we “should not mix religion with politics” don’t understand the Bible or history or the Constitution.  In a sense, every government is “spiritual”, even a non-theistic (i.e., secular) government. 

The Founders prayed during their deliberations, quoted the Scripture and made reference to “the laws of nature and of nature’s God” in the Declaration of Independence. Such phrases have a distinguished pedigree and were very familiar to men like Thomas Jefferson who had studied the common laws of England via Blackstone, Coke and Bracton.

Events in Washington, DC and Wall Street, even the international situation, have many of us gravely concerned.  The way a municipal court judge reads the Constitution impacts how he or she interpretes state laws and municipal code.  The core concepts of decency, respect and transparency are all expressed in the Bill of Rights.  Thus, the way we read the Constitution even impacts how we treat people over whom we have authority!