GOD AND LAW ⚖️ Where does law ultimately come from? For centuries, English constitutional thought held that human law was not the highest law. Law does not ultimately begin with the State. Above the State stands a higher order — natural law, grounded ultimately in God. Blackstone expressed this starkly: the law of nature is “superior in obligation to any other,” and human laws contrary to it have no validity. The same intellectual tradition crossed the Atlantic🇺🇸. In 1776, Jefferson opened the Declaration of Independence with “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and declared that people are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” The principle is simple: Law and rights come from nature and God, not rulers or States.