Why make laws? Shoot, what is law anyway?

In order to understand what law is and why laws should be written, one must understand that there is a fourth unalienable not found in the Declaration of Independence.

That is the natural right to protect and defend ones’ life, liberty and property.

Frederic Bastiat, in “The Law” defines law this way. “It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.”

“If every person has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly.”

“…Thus, the principle of collective right, …is based on individual right.”

We see, therefore, that all law has its genesis in individual inalienable rights, that, consequently, government derives its power and authority from the individuals it governs and can only do “what [individuals] have a natural and lawful right to do [themselves].”

Either you believe in freedom and equality or you don’t!

Every question and issue in the domain of current events comes back to the basic question as to whether or not you believe in freedom or not and whether you believe in equality or not.

At the core of this question is whether or not you believe in the three unalienable rights found in the Declaration of Independence:

1. Life
2. Liberty
3. Pursuit of Happiness (Property)

As Frederic Bastiat in “The Law” says “In spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God (referring to life, liberty and property) precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”