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[–] TazakiTsukuru 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason.
By this means it is clear that it flows from eternal law.
Insofar as it deviates from right reason, it is called an unjust law.
In such a case, it is no law at all, but rather an assertion of violence.

– Saint Thomas Aquinas