by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 17, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The expression ‘rule of law’ is regularly appropriated by those pushing socialist agendas. They do this for two reasons: firstly, to claim legitimacy for concepts averse to freedom, and secondly, to weaken the concept of the rule of law itself by rendering it...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 17, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The rule of law requires that the due process of the law be respected. However, before this can be done it must first be understood what ‘due process’ is. In this regard there has been great confusion, particularly in the United States. True due process The due...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 17, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The hierarchy of laws is the relative ranking of the five different types of laws. These are (in order of precedence): the constitution; legislation passed by initiative; legislation passed by the legislature; delegated legislation; the Common Law. Law courts enforce...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 17, 2015 | The Rule of Law
Natural rights are a man’s right to his life, limbs, and liberty; his right to the produce of his personal labor; to the use, in common with others, of air, light, water. If a thousand different persons, from a thousand different corners of the world, were cast...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 17, 2015 | The Rule of Law
What crime would it have been in any Roman, or body of Romans, even without any commission from Rome, to have slain Alarick, or Attila, or Brennus, when they invaded the Roman territories? And what more right had Caesar than they? In truth, his crime was infinitely...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 17, 2015 | The Rule of Law
Let this be the distinctive mark of an American that in cases of commotion, he enlists himself under no man’s banner, inquires for no man’s name, but repairs to the standard of the laws. Do this, and you need never fear anarchy or tyranny. Your government will be...
