| Such interconnection is traditionally asserted in the principle of causality or natural law. |
| Once unhinged from the higher natural law, the positive law of our legislatures and our courts became like paper money unhinged from gold. |
| Instead, evil becomes abstract and inescapable, defiant of natural law and irreducible to a single bad person or wrong action. |
| Scholastics' responses to Catharism in particular drew extensively on their concept of the natural law. |
| 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. |
| The Southern judiciary countered the argument of natural law by evoking the argument that, within a democracy, positive law trumped natural law. |
