Sentence examples for true law from inspiring English sources

For Rousseau there is a radical dichotomy between true law and actual law.

The true law of nature is self-preservation, he argues, which can be achieved only if the citizens make a compact among themselves to transfer their individual power to the "leviathan" (ruler), who alone can preserve them in security.

In his work De republica (On the Republic), he famously held, echoing Sophocles, that: true law is right reason in agreement with nature…to curtail this law is impious, to amend it illicit, to repeal it impossible…nor will it be one law at Rome and a different one at Athens, but one and the same Law, eternal and unchangeable.

True law, as described in The Social Contract, is just law, and what ensures its being just is that it is made by the people in their collective capacity as sovereign and obeyed by the same people in their individual capacities as subjects.

true law is right reason in agreement with nature…to curtail this law is impious, to amend it illicit, to repeal it impossible…nor will it be one law at Rome and a different one at Athens, but one and the same Law, eternal and unchangeable.

An influential view in current exegesis proceeds from Stephen's position: Moses was "both ruler and deliverer" (Acts 7 35); he had delivered "living oracles," the true law; and he had promised that God would raise up another prophet (Jesus) as he had raised up Moses (7 37).

Surely no true, law-abiding Russian could side with the enemies of his country?Later Father Dmitry was filled with remorse.

Though technically you need a Brazilian visa just to pass through, conventional traveler wisdom (and many guidebooks and sites) says it's O.K. True law-abiders can take the less-convenient ferry.

Our challenge as physicists is to discover this elegant way and the infinity-free equations describing it – the true laws of physics.

It's possible, though, to compute in a much more intimate and natural way — by programming the individual atoms themselves to solve problems using what Deutsch calls "the true laws of physics".

They realized that complexity theory was a statement about physics, but they didn't realize that it mattered whether you used the true laws of physics, or some approximation, i.e., classical physics".