wrathofgnon:“In the Middle Ages, the ‘Law’ was not seen as something to be created
wrathofgnon:“In the Middle Ages, the ‘Law’ was not seen as something to be created— whether by Kings, nascent legislatures, or judges—but as something pre-existent, to be discovered and enforced by those bodies. Neither the English Common Law nor the Civil Law prevalent in Scotland and on the Continent were seen as anything other than vessels of the eternal law given by God—and justice was thought to reign when the former conformed to the latter.”— Charles A. Coulombe, Star-Spangled Crown, 2016 -- source link