[MamaTexan]

That means the people are in charge at a local level.

No. I believe it means that natural law is always superior to positive law since natural law is for the people and totally positive (statutory) and quasi positive (civil) law is for the various governments.

The two forms of law is what makes us a Republic.

Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal;
equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything;
in the latter, because they are nothing.
THE SPIRIT OF LAWS Book VI By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

[Carry_Okie]

By natural law, are you referring to common law?

Please elaborate.