Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, January 28, 2008 10:48:58 AM
The rule of law is possible as long as there is consensus of what is right.
Today there is no consensus of what is right because the only authority big enough to form a consensus is undermined by an unlawful magistrate. They destroy the foundations established by the Founders. The magistrate is antinomian because the church is silent.
The concept of rule of law originated with men who understood that all men including the king or the state was subject to the moral Law of God. These men would not tolerate an unlawful magistrate because they understood the origins of liberty and tyranny.
As God’s Law is undermined, then the rule of law as we know it that leads to liberty is exchanged for antinomianism and tyranny.
The libertarians will vote on what is right or each man will determine for himself what is right. Liberty and lawlessness don’t mix. Liberty depends on a rule of law with its basis in something bigger than man.