If there is one thing upon which the stability and order of our society rests, it is the rule of law. Without law, you have no order and you have no boundaries. Instead, you have chaos. You have the “state of nature” envisioned by Locke and other Anglo-Enlightenment political theorist, where each man is a law unto himself, and is at constant war with each other man. Indeed, it was in a commonwealth specifically united by law that Locke thought it best for mankind to live peacefully and prosperously.