Natural Law
What Is Natural Law?
You hear it talked about.
Politicians and commentators toss the word around.
But, what is it really?
To unravel this mystery we explore the meaning of Jurisprudence. By understanding this complex word we gain a clearer view of our American heritage of law. You will learn how we came to the problems we now face. You will hopefully want to work with us, using this knowledge, to make things better for the future of our children and our planet.
Our search for discovering what Natural Law really is (without arguing over sectarian or political opinions) begins with our investigation of a particular, critically important word: Jurisprudence.
I tracked the etymology and traced the history of Jurisprudence from the Roman senate, where the word had its birth, to today’s law schools and the legal literature of our courts, where the venerable old term has too long been ludicrously misused and its potential for the improvement of our systems of law almost universally ignored.
This is no accident, as I discovered.
The meaning of the word Jurisprudence has been intentionally hidden from us.
Hidden by humanist philosophers, egotistical jurists, small-minded textbook writers, and elitist law school professors of the past century and a half.
These so-called modernists are doing their best to erase the once noble idea and its goals. They seek to replace it with a new, godless idea.
- an idea with many names,
- an idea that seeks to hold the world in its grip
- an idea that threatens at this present hour to establish a global oligarchy
That is their stated goal!
The system of government they intend will have unprecedented power over you, and you will have no recourse at law.
The system of government they intend will operate with centralized control over every aspect of your lives.
Wise men and women must now, as never before, resolve to restore the wisdom of Jurisprudence to our land by supporting the ongoing work of Jurisdictionary®.
The evil moguls of modern thinking claim we no longer need the old idea once represented by the name of Jurisprudence. They say the idea is a barrier to mankind’s progress. Some go so far as to contend that right-thinking people should work together with them to divest our land of what they insist is an unscientific notion that has no place in the administration of justice.
They are fools.
And those who heed their hateful teaching are led by fools.
It is by the unauthorized fiat of legal scholars and sitting judges that the meaning of Jurisprudence, a treasure men once died for, is no longer much considered, hidden as it is in the dusty pages of old books.
Today we must turn again to the wiser heritage of our past to understand the self-evident truth the old word once stood for. By its wisdom we will reap a wonderful bounty for ourselves and for our children. By honoring Natural Law we will make a better tomorrow. Justice will no longer be a commodity bought and sold by the rich and powerful. Justice will be, as it should be, a sacred treasure lovingly protected and secured for future generations by us, the People of this age!
Origin
The word Jurisprudence is derived from a legal concept revered by Roman people and adhered to by the Roman senate and its courts.
Our English word is formed by combining two Latin root words:
- juris
- prudens
These were the Roman words for Justice and Wisdom.
The word originally meant: “The Wisdom of Justice“.
We might say the wisdom by which we should guide justice and control the deliberations of leaders in whose hands justice is decided today and at whose hands justice is dispensed or withheld.
Yet, the definition we find in modern dictionaries is a sterile, modernist concept: “the science of law”.
Something vital has been omitted.
It’s quite a jump from the sacred root words juris and prudens (justice and wisdom) to “the science of law”.
The two ideas aren’t even remotely similar!
Why?
Why today’s humanists are removing the old to replace it with a godless translation should intensely interest you. If you care for the children’s future and the administration of “justice” they will face, read on.
A once sacred word has been re-defined.
Who re-defined it?
Why the striking, secular change?
What did it mean before?
What is the secular modernists’ motive?
These questions will be answered as you read on.
This generation (you and others) must begin at once to re-establish this sacred treasure. The “wisdom of justice” has been purposely torn from the pages of books future lawyers are reading in law school … torn from you, from your children, and from the ancient hope of the world that one day we will enjoy an age of peace and goodwill for ALL (not alone the moneyed few).
Juris and Jus
Juris is the genitive (possessive) case singular of the Latin noun jus, meaning “right”, i.e., that which is good, productive, healthful, uplifting, empowering, nurturing, peaceful, joyful, and liberating for both individuals and nations.
Other words equivalent to the Latin jus relate to stretching a crooked thing to make it straight or bending it into a right angle, like the corner of a cube or the intersection of a cross.
This is not the word we use to say a person has “rights”.
Jus is “right” as when we say a person did what’s right, what’s good, what’s loving.
The Sanskrit equivalent is yoh, meaning “health”.
A near equivalent is the Hebrew yod, meaning “source of light”.
In Persia’s writings of Zoroaster, it is yaozdadaiti, meaning “that which purifies”.
Note that jus in Latin is not just another word for “law”. The words “right” and “law” were distinct ideas to the ancient Romans. Each word has its own identity. Each stands alone. Each is different from the other.
The Latin name for “law” is lex, not jus.
Lex is the mechanism of state power, force, compulsion, and written law (right or wrong).
Lex is the body of codified precepts and rules by which governments control people; law that validates the force of armies and gives power to orders of magistrates.
Lex is the law men make for themselves.
Jus is something altogether different. Jus refers to that which is honest and fair. Jus is what’s right, whether man’s lex makes it legal or not. Jus is reality revealed by Eternal Truth, transcending the edicts of man’s courts and legislatures.
Jus is the first root of Jurisprudence … not lex.
Other languages also make a distinction between eternal “right” and man’s written “law”.
To the French, what’s “right” is droit, while their written “law” is loi.
The German says what’s “right” is recht, while his code of rules is gesetz.
If we are wise we will make this distinction in our own language and teach our children the difference and what it means to their liberty.
Jus is the rule of Eternal Truth that dictates human consequences in accordance with our actions and failures to act.
Jus is the hidden law of nature, what wise men know as Natural Law.
Jus is unavoidable reality, working behind the ever-changing scenes of time, dictating the outcome of our behavior both as individuals and as nations!
Jus is the unseen Hand of God.
Jus rewards good and punishes evil, no matter what our law may say is right or wrong, no matter what public opinion demands, and no matter how angrily we rebel against its supreme authority.
Jus is Natural Law supernaturally rewarding good and tearing down evil.
Jus is utterly heedless of our human statutes, courts, or legislatures.
Jus is jus … no matter what our man-made lex may say.
Jurisprudence is the wisdom of justice that seeks to know and submit our man-made lex to the Natural Law that transcends our statutes and decrees.
Lex is “law” in fact.
Lex is written law, codes, ordinances, human edicts. It is rule by force, the power of the state, the gavel of our courts. It is the steel chains and iron doors of prisons.
In a wise nation lex seeks jus.
Foolish nations heedlessly create lex that ignores jus. The consequence is always that, sooner-or-later, Natural Law teaches us our folly, often with unwanted foreseeable consequences, revealing our error as surely as night follows day.
George Washington called this Eternal Truth “Providence”, a force beyond the reach of reason. It is the Unseen Hand determining the destiny of individuals and nations.
If we are loving and kind, the Unseen Hand rewards us with benefits.
If we are short-sighted, Natural Law sooner-or-later brings suffering.
Though the effects of jus may be delayed for a season, they are never totally escaped.
Natural Law obeys no human legislation.
Its rule is heedless of our most eloquent demands.
It is what it is.
Only fools ignore it.
As they say on the street, “What goes around comes around.”
Natural Law is constantly at work.
Jus is eternal and unchanging.
Lex is whatever we decide to make it.
Though the two ideas are clearly distinct, the differences continue to outstrip the understanding of many legal philosophers and law professors who interchange them at will, obliterating the distinction.
As a consequence, our heritage is forgotten as our leaders ignore the wisdom of ages that understood the inescapable consequence of eternal principles and acted accordingly.
Modern pundits promise Huxley’s Brave New World, a nightmare waiting for our children on time’s horizon, where lex will always be jus, because they will hide the difference by re-writing the dictionaries to change the meaning of these words!
The modernists’ Jurisprudence is mere science.
They wish to rob us of our foundation of faith in self-evident truths such as those Thomas Jefferson wrote into our Declaration of Independence.
They seek to hide the wisdom of jus, so they can enact laws by which they can control human behavior and engineer society to their liking.
Instead of laws counseling people to submit to Natural Law and thereby gain its benefits, their laws ignore foreseeable consequence and ignore the Unseen Hand.
Today’s generation must Lift the Lamp of Liberty. We must promote the Public Legal Education Agenda of Jurisdictionary®, restoring Jurisprudence in our law schools, legislatures, courts, and especially in our public schools so our children learn about Law beyond books: Natural Law.
The degree conferred on students graduating from many law schools today is Juris Doctor. Yet, in recent times, law students are taught lex, ignoring jus as an intellectual dinosaur having significance only to legal philosophers and having no use at all to practicing attorneys and judges.
This is dangerous!
If law schools were honest, they’d call their degree Lex Doctor, because jus has nothing to do with what aspiring lawyers and judges are taught today.
It is lex that law schools have emphasized for far too many years.
We must correct this problem by teaching the principles of jus-tice in our public schools as well as in our law schools … and the task belongs to you!
Jurisprudence seeks to understand Natural Law and to conform our statutes accordingly.
Jurisprudence is Wisdom seeking Justice and Justice seeking Wisdom.
It is not “the science of law”!
Atheists and others deceived by humanism’s lies want nothing to do with Eternal Truth in the deliberations of law. This is partly because religionists like William Blackstone wrote books in the 18th and 19th centuries confusing Natural Law with Biblical Law.
The one insists truth is relative.
The other insists truth can only be discerned by studying scripture.
Both fall short of the mark.
Though scripture proposes mandates to inculcate morality, Bibles merely record what God is said to have already established: Natural Law.
Natural Law existed before Moses, before Abraham, before Adam, and even before formation of the stars and space itself!
This is the secret of the ages that fools despise and wise men cherish.
This is the foundation of our Hope.
Truth is revealed only to those willing to see Truth.
Jurisprudence searches for Natural Law so it can spare us the consequence of our collective avarice and ignorance.
Popular writers stupidly insist there is no Natural Law that determines the destinies of men and nations. Popular writers refuse to acknowledge a God that rewards good and punishes evil.
The result is that today’s legislators and judges prostitute justice for the benefit of corporations and the bell-curve of political correctness pandered by modern media as “acceptable truth”.
We must learn to love Truth and Lift its Lamp. We must work to enlighten those who do not yet see our nation on the road to avoidable destruction.
Many see destruction speeding toward us like a locomotive train and don’t know why.
This is why!
Truth cannot be ignored with impunity.
Two Ideas of Law
Sir John William Salmond wrote soon after the Great War, “Our purpose is to consider in respect of their origins and relations the various names and titles which have been borne by law in different languages in the hope that juridical terms may be found to throw some light upon the ideas of which they are manifestations.” (Jurisprudence, Sir John Salmond, Sweet and Maxwell, London, 1920.)
Sir Salmond distinguished between the two ideas of law. He clarified the meaning of Jurisprudence. “If we inquire after the cause of this duplication of terms we find it in the double aspect of the juridical concept of law. Law arises from a union of justice and force, of right and might. It is justice recognized and established by authority. It is right realized through power. Since it has two sides and aspects, it may be looked at from two different points of view, and we find it has two different names. Jus is law from the point of view of right and justice; lex is law from the point of view of authority and force.” (Ibid.)
Shouldn’t the study of law that prepares young people for careers as lawyers and judges, as well as state and federal legislators whose decisions affect the lives of millions, be tempered by a balanced view toward jus and its eternal truths?
God’s Unseen Hand has nothing to do with what is taught in law schools today!
Law schools in the United States followa curriculum required by the American Bar Association (a private organization beyond the reach of public opinion or control). Your life and the lives of your loved ones are regulated by decisions of men and women indoctrinated into a view of law that ignores ancient concepts of Jurisprudence in favor of modernist, atheistic concepts … while America sleeps!
Ask leadership, “Why?”
We must demand that our children be taught about jus in tax-supported schools and urge private schools to teach jus for the sake of our present and future welfare as “the governed”.
Every American must learn the difference between jus or “what’s right” and lex or “the forced will of leaders indoctrinated into atheist concepts of law”.
Understanding jus and sharing its eternal truth with neighbors and friends is essential to building a better tomorrow for your children.
We must work together to promote the Public Legal Education Agenda.
Thomas Cowan wrote in 1956, jus is “the law as it ought to be rather than as it is.” This is wisdom our leaders ignore. Cowan said the “abiding concern” of Jurisprudence is the nature of ” jus-tice”. (The American Jurisprudence Reader, Thomas A. Cowan, Oceana Publications, New York, 1956.)
Consider the Scales of Justice. 
In one pan of the balance is lex (written law enforced by government police force).
In the other pan is jus (Natural Law enforced by the Unseen Hand).
What greater goal could there be for our legislators and judges than to balance the two, enacting lex to conform with inescapable jus?
Why should this truth be hidden from the public any longer?
Natural Law is reality … not illusion!
Those who deny this are enemies of truth.
Enemies of truth are enemies of mankind.
Each word represents a different idea.
We can no more change jus than we can change the path of Jupiter!
Jus is jus.
Lex is lex.
The lex by which governments rule us must be tempered by the principles of jus, until the Scales of Justice are in harmonious balance, obeying the sacred plan for America’s Republic that too many sacrificed their lives to establish and preserve.
Establish and Preserve.
Jachin and Boaz. 
The two pillars of Solomon’s temple.
Twin towers of truth inescapable.
Jus must be established and preserved for future generations.
Wise men search to discern the consequence of Natural Law so they may avoid its inescapable negative consequences.
By changing human behavior through the legislation and administration of wise laws, we can avoid the painful result of living in ignorant disobedience to unchangeable Natural Law.
It doesn’t matter what we “think” should happen. If we do a certain thing, Natural Law decrees the consequences.
This is how we learn the “hard knocks” lessons of life.
This truth is not apparent to young people.
Older men and women know that, as Newton said is true in physics, every action has an unavoidable reaction.
It doesn’t make a bit of difference what we “think” is fair or unfair.
Natural Law is inescapable.
Man’s laws cannot change it!
Eternal Truth is eternally true.
No one is immune to the effects of Natural Law.
Interpretation has nothing to do with it.
What one chooses to believe has no effect on the Reality of this present moment, regardless of New Age teachings to the contrary.
What we believe may change tomorrow, but today is what it is.
Today is what we need to change, or (as Charles Dickens wrote in the preface to his wonderful story Hard Times) tomorrow “may take a fiendish turn and make an end of us”.
Blind hope, like good intentions, will only lead us into greater darkness.
Natural law decrees it so.
Natural Law determines the outcome of our temporal decisions, whether as individuals or as nations. It cannot be avoided by wishful thinking or volumes of legislation.
We ignore this Truth at our peril.
Atheistic ignorance imperils the future of our children. We must fight for Jurisprudence to rule our judges, our legislatures, and those wielding executive power. We must fight in the courts, in the polling booth and, if necessary, in the streets.
Your leaders must be shown this truth.
The tyranny of misguided government has too often wounded innocent people. The hands of godless leaders must be stopped from exercising absolute control, mindlessly heedless of the foreseeable adverse consequences to humanity.
The guiding lamp of Jurisprudence must be lifted once again by this present generation, for by its wisdom alone can we secure a safer future for our children.
Eternal Truth never changes.
Natural Law is never violated.
We must call the world to heed once more the ancient moral imperative: Amend temporal law (lex) until it encourages everyone to live in reverence for and obedience to Natural Law (jus).
Though eternity may be too short a span for this to be accomplished, yet it will never cease to be the object of every wise nation’s most committed energy.
This is the highest form of loving our neighbor as ourselves!
We strive for lex that will secure human happiness through government that is obedient to jus.
This has been the call of Jurisprudence to wise people of every age.
We must heed its call today!
Jus alone justifies governments and legitimizes their temporal power.
Lex can never justify government nor legitimate its power.
If we say lex is jus simply because it is “the law”, we err, for jus is the Eternal Law of Right, not man’s law of might.
The two are not equivalent.
The nemesis of modern thinking is that jurists and legal philosophers, who believe themselves emancipated by elitist disdain for religion’s imperative of Eternal Truth, seek to administer jus based solely on their own secular ideas of “justice”, without acknowledging Natural Law. These people, empowered as they are to rule the masses, dangerously deny the innate nature of an Ordered Cosmos. They refuse to see the certain consequence of ignoring the Great Truth that this cosmos in which we live is inescapably subject to an overriding logos, an Eternal Law that determines the fate of men and nations in accordance with our actions and intent.
In this rebellion wisdom died.
An insidious intellectual tyranny is raising its ugly head, preparing all to be enslaved by judicial arrogance.
What’s getting built is lex and more lex (not jus).
As a consequence, people increasingly suffer under the gavel of fools.
Alfred Cobban predicted the consequences we are seeing today when he wrote in 1941, “It would seem we must acquiesce to the abandonment of Eternal Truth by the modern world, even though to do so is to accept the rule of arbitrary human will in the life of society. Henceforth there can be no ethical standards of social and political behavior, because will cannot make right.” [emphasis added] (The Crisis of Civilization, J. Cape, London, 1941.)
Will cannot make right.
Lex cannot make jus … not in a million lifetimes.
More than 200 years ago, the Baron de Montesquieu saw the emergence of this idea that seeks to hold our world in its grip. Montesquieu admonished us to see that Natural Law is real.
“They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly. Can any thing be more unreasonable than to pretend a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?”
Montesquieu based this wisdom on what he called “prime reason”, arguing that “laws are relations subsisting between the prime reason and man.”
He said, “Particular intelligent beings may have laws of their own making, but they have some likewise which they never made. Before there were intelligent beings and written laws, there were relations of justice. To say there is nothing just or unjust but what is commanded or forbidden by positive laws is the same as saying that before one draws a circle all the radii are not equal.” (The Spirit of The Laws, Baron de Montesquieu, edited by Thomas Nugent, Hafner Publishing Company, New York, 1949.)
Prudens
Now, let’s examine the second Latin root of our word Jurisprudence.
Prudens is the Latin adjective form of prudentia, a contraction of providens, comprised of pro and videns, “forward” and “seeing”.
Our English word is Prudence.
Prudence is “the power of seeing in advance, the faculty of looking ahead, anticipating the future, prescience.” (Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford Press, Oxford, 1982.)
Prudence is “practical understanding or sagacity”. (Ibid.)
Wisdom.
Foresight.
Common-sense.
Prudence sees that all our acts have consequences dictated by Natural Law, i.e., law not of man’s making.
Prudence avoids foreseeable adverse consequences. It maximizes the probability of success by considering the unavoidable consequences of Natural Law.
Prudence is the highest form of Wisdom.
It cautions us to, “Consider foreseeable consequences before you act.”
Carl Claudy wrote that Prudence is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues that were widely recognized and honored by ancient civilizations. The three other virtues are Fortitude, Temperance, and Justice!
“Consider Prudence as the wisdom of both heart and mind,” Claudy wrote, “and it becomes something high and holy, much more than mere precaution, the modern meaning of the word.” (A Treasury of Thought, edited by Carl Glick, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1953.)
Yet today, if we proclaim Jurisprudence as a high and holy wisdom of heart and mind, a prescience to find Eternal Right, establishing Justice by making lex comply with jus, modern secular scholars will denounce us as religious fanatics instead of admitting we are wise citizens seeking a better world for ourselves and our children.
Secular scholars, judges, legislators, and law professors of this modern age so-called, seek to build a world where there is no recognition of Natural Law. They ridicule those who think lex should seek jus by the high and holy wisdom of Jurisprudence. They intentionally choose to be blind to the undesirable consequences of ignoring self-evident truth.
And we who allow ourselves to be led by the blind, because we are too lazy to learn how to be led better, are the most foolish!
Solomon, the wisest jurist of all, said, “Prudence is the principle thing; therefore get Prudence, and with all thy getting get understanding.” (Proverbs 4:7.)
Under-standing is difficult for the proud who refuse to “stand under” any knowledge but their own.
Many people in this age claim, “There’s no such thing as Truth. Truth is whatever you perceive it to be.”
They wish Truth to fit their own interpretation, refusing to see that Truth remains unchanged by any private concept or theory, however eloquently expressed those concepts and theories may be.
We ask how Prudence is obtained, and Solomon replies, “Revere Truth!” (Proverbs 9:10.)
We must restore this nation to its high and holy purpose. We must insist that our leaders admit that Truth exists apart from our imagination or the exigent demands of political convenience.
We must demand that all who seek to lead us first submit themselves to the decrees of Natural Law and administer our statutes and ordinances in such manner as will best ensure that we derive the greatest benefit from the Unseen Hand that only fools deny.
By this we can enjoy great and lasting victory for all mankind!
Usage
Jurisprudence today is just another word for law.
We have medical jurisprudence, for example, the body of law developing around the field of medicine.
There is commercial jurisprudence, the body of business law.
We have criminal jurisprudence, the codes by which we protect society from infractors of our codified law.
In none of these applications, however, is the word used in its true sense.
In the 60 years from 1925 to 1985, the Supreme Court used the word Jurisprudence in no less than 576 cases. Each time it was just another word for “law”. Not once in that period of time did any Justice undertake to define this much forgotten but critically important word.
The Roman jurist Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpianus, 200 years before the birth of Christ, wrote, “Juris prudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia,” i.e., Jurisprudence is a knowledge both human and divine, understanding what is just and what is unjust.
Cicero penned the same words in 43 B.C.
Sir William Blackstone (who published his famous Commentaries on the Law of England before our nation penned its Constitution and upon which book much of American common law is based) quoted from the writings of Aristotle, “Jurisprudence is the principal and most perfect branch of ethics.” (Study of Law, Blackstone, 1809.)
In 1628 Sir Edward Coke praised Jurisprudence as a “gladsome light”.
By 1762, however, a new form of unreason was beginning to appear when men like Adam Smith began saying, “Jurisprudence is the theory of rules by which governments ought to be directed.” (Lectures on Jurisprudence, Adam Smith, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978.)
An almost unnoticeable shift of meaning, but the hole was in the dike.
No one noticed.
No one complained.
Yet a flood of catastrophic philosophical error began.
Soon after, Jurisprudence further fell from grace in academic circles.
Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1827, “As to the jurisprudentialist, his most common state is a sort of middle state between impostor and dupe.”
Clearly, the New World Order’s ideas were gaining ground.
Ancient wisdom is attacked by fools who seek to drag us into a brave new world they will rule according to their “new ideas of right and wrong”. They mock the mention of Eternal Truth.
By the end of the Nineteenth Century, any and all consideration of Jurisprudence as “a knowledge human and divine” was trashed by so-called legal scholars.
The ancient wisdom of Eternal Truth was replaced by a new enlightenment called science (wherein nothing is true except in relation to other things).
No longer could a thing be true in and of itself.
Modernists were certain they would find the answers to life’s questions without resort to any worn‑out Cosmic Principle of Unchanging Truth or any Natural Law that might determine the consequence of human behavior.
In their rebellious zeal for modernity, they ridicule all who doubt science’s ability to solve all problems of human nature, its frailty and its vices.
The New Age rebelled against Reality itself.
Today’s children claim all we think we know is mere “illusion”.
In 1879, Austin distinguished “general Jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law from what may be styled particular Jurisprudence or the science of law.”
Positive law was now in one pan of the balance. In the other was science.
At the end of the first World War, God was dying. God let innocent boys be killed at the Marne. What sort of God would allow a world of gruesome death and perpetual pain?
The God of religionists failed mankind, so scholars (secretly hoping to be gods themselves) wrote their epitaph for Jurisprudence: “God is dead.”
Soon the news was whispered in the halls of every law school and in every courtroom in our land.
Where Jurisprudence once was honored as supreme wisdom, “Science!” was now the deafening hue and cry, drowning out true reason through the skillful, purposed use of moving pictures, radio, the press, and TV.
“God is dead, so we must save ourselves!
We are God, and science is our Name!”
Jurisprudence was reduced to theories and hypotheses.
Law was now a game for scholars, insulated from the people’s will.
Jurisprudence is now used to identify a sterile branch of science propped precariously on the pinnings of statistical mathematics and the imperatives of commercial necessity.
No longer do we have a high and holy search for Natural Law.
No longer do our leaders seek to discern Eternal Truth by which our human acts and intentions earn immutable consequences.
Natural Law is ignored.
Jurisprudence is lost by the purposeful perversion of its name.
LeBuffe and Hayes said, “Jurisprudence is the practical science which investigates the nature, origin, and development of law.” (Jurisprudence, Francis LeBuffe and James Hayes, Fordham University Press, New York, 1938.)
Jurisprudence is now a science, and science with no absolutes!
Science claims to seek Truth, while insisting no such thing as Truth exists!
It is a paradox of fools.
By 1957, scholars striving to define Jurisprudence said, “The result of our investigation thus far is to establish the negative conclusion that nowadays the word ‘Jurisprudence’ does not mean certain things. Indeed, it would appear the word has no usual meaning, and it is no cynicism to say that ‘Jurisprudence’ means whatever anyone wants it to mean.” (Jurisprudence, R.W.M. Dias and G.B.J. Hughes, Butterworth & Company, London, 1957.)
Atheists have what threatens to be a lasting victory in academia.
We must Lift the Lamp of Liberty once more together by promoting the Public Legal Education Agenda.
The hazardous ignorance of today’s atheism must be displaced by the wise foreseeing vision of Jurisprudence once more.
Today’s generation must prevent the triumph of this ignorance over truth.
From the days of ancient Roman jurists through the rebellions of International Republicanism, the atrocities of German Nazi Socialism, and the horrors of an Atomic Age and current threat of Global Terrorism, we see the horrid result of man’s refusal to honor this knowledge human and divine. The wisdom that seeks to know what is truly just and unjust is increasingly ignored by leadership.
We see today the consequence of atheist efforts to corrupt the true meaning of Jurisprudence so they may rule the world through social engineering, pandering to the public, and intentional mendacity in the media.
We recognize the error of their premise that American Law is something judges do and mortals merely muddle through.
We dare remain deceived no longer!
Who knows best the value of Jurisprudence? The Roman jurists, Ulpian and Cicero? Or some cloistered conceited clique of modernist New England law professors?
True patriots must demand that Natural Law be recognized by our leaders!
Not the “natural law” Blackstone saw as the eternal edicts of God set out in the Hebrew-Christian Bible, but the Natural Law that is the logos written of by the Apostle John at the beginning of his Gospel.
“In the beginning was Logos, Eternal Law, that was with God and is God!”
Eternal Law does not change nor bend for any man or legislature.
Apples fall from trees. They do not float upward by committee rule.
Water freezes at 32° Fahrenheit.
Nations fail and humanity suffers when leadership ignores Natural Law, the immutable Logos of this universe, that is God!
History
Note how misuse of a word and failure to discriminate between jus and lex is prodded by the atheist rejection of Providence and the unwillingness of politicians to stand for Eternal Truth!
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Errors must be opposed quickly or they grow like weeds.
Only Truth is true. Nothing else is.
History is the story of errors and the courage that strives to correct them.
Now that we’ve entered the 21st Century, we may laugh at Orwell’s prophetic novel, 1984. Nothing notable happened in 1984. We’re not spied on by telescreens that pried into Winston’s and Julia’s intimacy. We are smugly certain Big Brother is not yet watching us (at least not in the Orwellian sense).
Yet, if we think 1984 was the year we’d see Big Brother take over, we did not understand the darker implications of Orwell’s story. Orwell predicted the fearsome change would not be noticed till much later. The insidious central control of society his book foretold would come upon us so slowly no one would notice … and that change, he prophetically foretells, would come long after 1984!
“How’s the dictionary getting on?” Winston asked his comrade Syme, who worked with him in the Research Department.
“We’re getting the language into its final shape,” Syme answered. “By the year 2050 at the very latest not a single human being will be alive who could understand the conversation we are having now.” (1984, George Orwell.)
So begins Orwell’s story of everyday mortals struggling against tyrannical power, the ageless saga of unbridled oligarchy bent on self perpetuation, a heartless mechanism without concern for harsh human consequences that blight the lives of laboring classes, a movement heedless of history’s hard lessons, an egotistical philosophy committed to build a new tomorrow by destroying the past’s traditions, art, and language.
Humanism is its name.
Wonderful, the power of words.
Terrifying, the power of those who can alter words’ meanings!
It is our language that makes us human, not prehensile thumbs or the ability to stand erect on hind legs.
With words we build reality out of dreams.
With words we plan for our future.
With words we preserve the wisdom of our past … or toss it foolishly aside.
With words we hide from Truth by revising reality to suit our selfish purposes.
The choice of amending our law to the unavoidable imperative of Natural Law or following modern man’s godless philosophy is always before us, a choice presented to every age.
We can labor, as our forefathers did, to establish Jurisprudence on the principle that Reality dictates consequences both to individuals and nations, or we can join the fools turning from Absolute Truth to seek instead the rule of the rich and powerful, permitting ourselves and our children to be ruled by an elite caste of atheists whose goal is pleasure for themselves no matter what the cost to us or our posterity.
This is the timeless choice, and every age acts on it one way or another.
Failure to choose is nonetheless a choice.
We cannot escape the consequence of our decision nor our refusal to decide.
The potency of Jurisprudence to wisely discern the inescapable dictates of Natural Law (Truth that ultimately controls our destinies) lies in sharing its wisdom with others. We must empower the populace to counsel lawmakers and judges. As patriotic men and women we must Lift the Lamp of a Public Legal Education Agenda, and Jurisprudence will revive from the yellowed pages of old books.
We must avoid the unwanted consequence of violating Natural Law by submitting to its Truth.
Providence will bless our land with peace and prosperity when we obey Truth.
We must awaken wisdom from its slumber and turn our children’s hearts to goodness once again (as the founders of our nation intended us to do).
Jurisprudence will offer us its promise of better government and better life until the end of time, in spite of our eloquent debates, heedless of the most scholarly writings, oblivious to the public pandering and ear-scratching rhetoric of politicians.
Jurisprudence cannot be imprisoned in books nor trapped within the frailty of a single human mind.
Jurisprudence must live.
We must teach our children this holy, divine wisdom.
We must show them how to discern what is right and just.
Leaders must be compelled to base our laws on the wisdom of Jurisprudence, wisdom we share in common and approve in unity.
We have no unifying Jurisprudence in these United States of America today. We have politics and the widening gap of division politics invariably creates!
We must put aside petty political differences and be guided by fixed principles, or our nation will perish as have countless others in the past!
We dare not allow “right and wrong” to continue being what movie makers and television sitcom writers wish us to believe!
The purposeful destruction of Jurisprudence is far more dangerous than the threat of international terrorism or nuclear war.
The loss of its guiding wisdom is our greatest danger!
It is by force of law that lives are either blessed by Liberty or stolen by tyranny.
So, each generation has this choice to make.
We can base our laws on eternal principle or convenient preference.
Rudolph von Ihering wrote, “The end of the law is peace. The means to that end is war. So long as the law is compelled to hold itself in readiness to resist the attacks of wrong (and this it will be compelled to do until the end of time) it cannot dispense with war. The life of the law is a struggle, a struggle of nations, of state power, of classes, and of individuals.” (The Struggle of Law, Rudolph von Ihering, Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 1879.)
The struggle of law is real.
Yet we, in this present generation, can overcome the most determined foe by working in harmony to restore Jurisprudence based on Natural Law.
Without such Jurisprudence, all law is tyranny.
Only by Jurisprudence can we set limits for lex and justify its means by being ever-mindful of its foreseeable ends.
Natural Law is self-evident to anyone with wisdom and good conscience.
At the outset of the 20th Century, a revolution tore through legal circles, leaving wisdom in shambles. Before that time, Jurisprudence rested on the premise that there do exist immutable, eternal principles of Justice, what Jefferson called self evident truths.
Reality was no illusion to men and women of the 19th Century.
Truth was absolute, not relative.
Natural Law was an accepted fact.
Most legislatures and courts held themselves to a moral duty: make the laws of men conform to Natural Law and thereby protect people from the foreseeable consequence of their self-interested folly.
Wise men took this for granted.
This widely-held understanding flowed from Jefferson’s pen when he wrote, “All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights”.
The endowment of “rights” by man’s creator was considered self-evident.
Reasonable persons agreed that each of us inhabits a world complete with Natural Law dictating consequences that follow the good and the bad of human behavior. They understood the unwritten principles that we today must learn once more. They knew this truth that we must publish widely and quickly for the sake of our children’s future.
Blackstone said, “Man is entirely a dependent being, subject to the laws of his Creator, to whose will he must conform.”
Blackstone is not saying we have no free will. Rather he, and those early settlers of our nation who followed his teachings, believed none of us can be completely happy if we refuse to live in harmony with Natural Law.
Truth decides happiness.
Joy flows from behavior. The Golden Rule cannot be ignored with impunity. Our every word and deed cause predictable results that are fixed forever by Eternal Truth.
This is the Logos mentioned in the first line of John’s Gospel, the Eternal Truth that is and was and always will be. The Natural Law whose edicts never vary.
Blackstone’s “Classical Jurisprudence” took Eternal Truth and Natural Law for granted.
Change came when jurists began using law as a tool for social engineering.
Conceited modernists rejected the proven principles of the past, replacing them with practicality and whatever political expedience of the moment that seemed best.
There were no longer any absolutes.
Darwinism was the new Jurisprudence.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., said in 1881, “Law is what courts do in fact”, and by that sweeping sentence he condemned our heritage of Trust in God that was this nation’s birthright.
Today’s law professors boast, “Law is whatever nine men say it is.” This is their way of saying law is whatever the nine United States Supreme Court Justices say is law. From a purely technical point of view, this is true. However, philosophically it is sad evidence of the shameful absence of wisdom in today’s law schools that prepare lawyers, judges, and legislators to rule us all by laws that have no God but self-interest and the blind belief that science can cure all ills.
It is a fearful excuse for Jurisprudence.
It has no sustaining eternal principle to support it.
We innately know it is error for law to be only what judges say it is.
Yet, for more than a century, Jurisprudence has been subverted by the outspoken plan of atheists who promise to “save” humanity through social engineering and economic manipulation that ignore what Jurisprudence clearly sees.
The law of atheism is based solely on theories of social science.
The methods of atheism are mass propaganda and statistics.
The goals of atheism are the published objectives of secular humanism, a vain philosophy our Supreme Court has given the noble title of religion.
Humanist Manifesto I
- The universe is self-existing and not created.
- Man is the product of evolution.
- Man has no soul, and consciousness dies with the body.
- Culture and civilization are products of evolution.
- There is no cosmic consequence controlling human values.
- Goals based on eternal values are obsolete.
- Man must use governments to establish right and wrong.
- The only rule of life is to live it to the fullest.
- The only goal is self fulfillment.
- Spiritual life will not be allowed.
- Sentiment, hopes and wishful thinking will not be allowed.
- Religions shall be reconstituted as quickly as possible.
- Socialist communism shall replace acquisitive capitalism.
This ignorant idea has our world in its grip.
To atheists, truth is relative. To them “truth” depends on their interpretation. So, in their mind, man must set his own standards for behavior, heedless of the certain consequences of Natural Law.
It is a horrid lie, yet it has taken root because patriotic men and women have not before been willing to promote the Public Legal Education Agenda as they must do now by ever increasing numbers.
The Lamp must be lifted, and it must be lifted today.
Tomorrow may be too late to turn back the tide of public legal ignorance.
Our nation dare no longer follow fools who deny Truth so they may promote the lies of humanism, insidiously infecting our age with destructive deceits.
Good people must stand up for Eternal Truth, opposing the lies humanists insidiously promote through popular media and law school curricula.
Humanists are as real as Nazis and Bolsheviks. Their admitted goal is the creation of a purely atheistic society, in which religion and private ownership of property will be destroyed … much along the lines of Karl Marx’s lies that have done so much damage by deceiving the under class into believing that private ownership of property is the cause of poverty.
The “good life” at any cost is the humanist mantra.
People deceived by the humanist agenda can be found in the rank and file populace, seduced by the enticing humanist promise of the “good life”.
- False hopes of heaven are harmful.
- Reasonable minds look to other methods of survival.
- The 21st Century should be the humanistic century.
- Humanism intends a secular society on a planetary scale.
- There is no divine purpose for the human species.
- Religion is an obstacle to human progress.
- Ethics is autonomous and situational.
- Abortion and divorce are human rights.
- Sexual and homosexual exploration are human rights.
- Euthanasia and suicide are human rights.
- The limits of national sovereignty must be transcended.
- A transnational federal government should be established.
Humanists promote their jurisprudence of atheism so successfully that society is now basked in a deceptive sense of global security.
People are insidiously lulled into dangerous complacency as God is displaced by secularism.
We are only beginning to recognize the consequences: economic instability, compromised Constitutional principles, loss of confidence in our nation’s leaders, faltering fiscal health, and growing sense of disenfranchisement as power and money (rather than solid statesmanship and traditional values) put unworthy politicians into public office.
Social science is the sum of the humanists’ atheistic false “jurisprudence”.
Statistics is the basis for their humanist morality.
A new world order run by atheists is the humanists’ stated objective.
In 1933, humanists published their first manifesto declaring for all who would read, the foundation of their atheistic philosophy.
Some of the statements from that first manifesto are provided in the sidebar (paraphrased from the original text).
You are urged to read the complete original text. It can be found on the internet.
In 1973, their second manifesto revealed their humanist plan for one world government, dedicated to atheism, and committed to socialist communism.
A few points touched upon in that document follow in the next sidebar (paraphrased from the original text).
No high and holy wisdom based on Eternal Principles of Justice will be permitted in the grand utopia these fools envision. Jurisprudence will be displaced by the legal mechanism of public policy and a promise of the good life for all who agree with their godless proposals.
They condemn as heresy the very thought we humans might place our hope in an Eternal Law of Love and Truth to guide and ennoble our lives.
Their New Age was the political goal of the preceding century.
Classroom secularists refrain from divine considerations when they speak of law, lest they be politically incorrect.
The humanist religion threatens to displace philosophies and beliefs that teach Eternal Truth.
Theirs is a resolute ignorance that will not retreat one single inch, yet it is this weakness that gives us today an opportunity to displace their lies and restore Jurisprudence as the high and holy wisdom it should forever be!
Choice
You may now understand why we hear so much said about “human rights” in these changing times.
It is a humanist term.
Atheists who gained power after World War II had no plan for a Jurisprudence based on the essential values and landmarks that the word stands for!
They do not know what the word means, much less understand it or value it.
Without its guiding light to point them toward its noble goals, they wandered into the darkness of unrestrained self-interest and took our leaders with them!
They’ve deceived several generations, hoodwinking young into believing in their Bright New Tomorrow where the stored wisdom of our past will be ignored!
Legal scholars are like deceitful land barons, concealing or uprooting ancient landmarks, shifting boundaries, teaching law students that there are no fixed and certain truths.
It is as if our sacred heritage and every noble thought of our forefathers is rendered foolishness by the unchallenged edict of 20th Century scholarship, persuaded by humanistic atheism and its evil spawn: political correctness.
Humanists are so completely lost in their godless conceit that they propose to re-define reality and so, with mere words, to cause Truth itself to bend to every desire of their proud imaginations.
They seek to replace the meaning of Jurisprudence with measurements of social science and the vanity of godless philosophies.
You are witness to the consequence of their stealthily emerging ideas that threaten to destroy the fabric of civilization and cast your children headlong into the terror of an intolerable anarchy where rule will be by force alone and justice a thing only the most wealthy and politically favored can afford.
We must teach Natural Law and demand that man-made laws conform.
At issue is nothing less than the Peace and Safety of future generations.
Conclusion
A mighty beam suspends the pans of justice!
A razors edge is its fulcrum!
But, the burden of its judgments can only be upheld on a foundation rooted and grounded in Truth.
Why not seek to predict how Natural Law dictates consequences to errors?
Why not frame laws to protect the innocent and restrain the impudent?
Why not exercise wisdom and acknowledge that which cannot be denied?
Our most prestigious law schools were founded by legal educators devoted to promoting awareness of eternal principles of right and wrong. Harvard, Yale, and dozens of others were built and staffed in their early years by teachers who taught and believed in Natural Law.
To those who say Natural Law has no place in discussions of law, we reply that our founding fathers were staunch believers. They acknowledged self-evident truths as their sacred guide. They stood willing to give their lives and sacred fortunes to secure for us a government securely based on self-evident truths.
It is high time we told those who conceit themselves to be wiser than the founders of this nation that they have no place in our law school classrooms, nor in our legislatures or courthouses.
Jurisprudence must be restored!
Though today’s use of the word is so foreign to its original meaning, so far separated from its lofty purpose, and so divested of its noble goal as to be a modern-day non sequitur, we must restore it by demanding that our leaders recognize Natural Law and once again abide by our American Jurisprudence.
Jurisprudence is not just another name for law.
It is not just a branch of social science.
It certainly is not an arcane discipline between the abstrusities of social ethics and that maze men call epistemology.
It is the Wisdom of Law.
And, we need it today more than ever.
We can be empowered once again by its value and greatness. It was a wise Jurisprudence that guided our founders to launch this great nation for you who are reading this today.
The success they hoped for will be ours as we resurrect Jurisprudence from its holy tomb.
Atheist thinkers selectively defined the term to eliminate its meaning and replace it with their humanist substitute (social engineering) by which, if we foolishly allow, they will commit heinous crimes against humanity in their vain effort to evade what cannot be escaped.
Natural Law is an unavoidable part of Reality.
Reality is no illusion (except to fools).
The ancients venerated words, using them to contemplate deeper truths.
By words they searched for Truth.
By words they sought to give us a destiny ordained by Natural Law.
We can take our nation back from the so-called “liberated generation” and refuse to be guided only by science, social correctness, and the will of self-interested tyrants who hide behind their smiles and deceitful media advertising.
We can heed the wisdom of the past, instead of seeking profit for today at the expense of tomorrow.
Our founders knew there’d come a time when we’d forget their vision.
Many predicted our refusal to rely on the landmarks of their architecture.
Orwell predicted important words would be displaced by newspeak and newthink.
By the year 2050, where will truth be?
Where justice?
Where liberty?
We must restore Jurisprudence and Natural Law so liberty and justice will be secure for our children and their children, dispelling the darkness with which atheism has too long attempted to destroy us.
Jurisprudence has been called the “queen of reason”.
Come, let us reason together!
Those who ignore the mandates of Natural Law are unworthy to lead us.
They serve a darkness that denies Eternal Truth.
They are not friends of humanity as they claim.
They are, in fact, your enemies!
Like the torch held high in the hand of Lady Liberty in New York’s harbor, Jurisprudence lights our search for Truth.
It is the code by which wisdom should codify our laws.
It is not mere law nor a body of law nor the science or study of law.
It is wisdom looking toward the future for the welfare of us all.
It is Prudence searching to discern the mandates of Natural Law.
Without Jurisprudence we are barbarians who go to war and criminals who punish those whose acts offend us.
Without Jurisprudence we have no authority but our self-serving desires.
We are wiser with a faulty Jurisprudence than with none at all.
The founders of this nation rested on the wisdom of the past, looked to the future, and labored resolutely with concern for us who are their posterity.
Now, we must take up their cause and truly follow in their footsteps.
Only Truth is true.
Only Wisdom is wise.
Let our Wisdom seek to discover Truth and in its Freedom rejoice!
Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote:
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be:
They are but broken lights of Thee,
And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Many believe we have no right to speak of Eternal Truth or Natural Law in public.
They claim it violates their code, their unwritten rules of political correctness, their bell curve of modernist morality.
They wish us to believe Eternal Truth and Natural Law have no place in our society.
We boldly ask, “Why not?”
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