Our Framers insisted that the purpose of government is to secure our unalienable, Natural Rights. That is the essence of justice. They also wrote that free government demands the consent of the governed. That is the legal.
It is the comingling or equating of the just with the legal that allows minds with totalitarian leanings to sink nations into misery. It ensconces majority rule, the stronger over the weaker with the patina of legitimacy. It is the rejection of this distinction between the legal and the just that dignifies all forms of tyranny.
The founding fathers had a deep understanding of God’s laws and those inalienable rights granted us by Him. Those rights do not need men’s laws to exist. They are written on our douls...or, in our essence. Mankind has from near the beginning strove to overcome injustice and immorality with varying success. There is evil which is an active force that attacks God’s will and wants to deprive mankind from God. This has been, is, and will be the conflict. Nations come and go, we are nearing the end of ours. But, the battle between good and evil shall continue. This next one I fear will be the worst in history.