Remove Natural Law-—the basis of American jurisprudence—and you have irrational man-made up “rights”. Promoting Virtue is essential for any Virtue (Justice) System to survive. If you promote Vice and Evil laws (welfare/theft) you will get more of it and Vice will be made “normal” to those children raised in the Vice system.
There is no natural right from God to sodomize others or to treat women like dogs and in a system which teaches any children that males are superior to females.
This unequal treatment of the sexes and the irrational Marxist idea that males and females are interchangeable-—throws out Science, Truth and Right Reason......
But that is Cicero’s point, isn’t it and St. Thomas’s-—When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law.
And we all know that when you have Rule of Man (Hitler/obama) civil society will collapse and you will have a totalitarian system which controls what you are allowed to “think” and “do” and how you “educate” your little Johnny which will end up exactly like the education of the little Afghani harem boys.
I read something the other day that I should have bookmarked. Briefly, about 30 40 years ago Natural Law in America jurisprudence was replace by precedent. Ergo Justice as it is commonly known no longer exists in the USA. Instead of God's Law or Natural Law we now have mans law and we are screwed.