- a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
- an ethical belief or system of beliefs supposed to be inherent in human nature and discoverable by reason rather than revelation
- a nonlogically necessary truth; law of nature
- the philosophical doctrine that the authority of the legal system or of certain laws derives from their justifiability by reason, and indeed that a legal system which cannot be so justified has no authority
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