The law, in its most general signification, is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth; the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which this human reason is applied.
Separation of powers
The Spirit of the Laws, Book I, Chapter 3: Of Positive Laws
1748
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