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Can a society exist without laws?
Society always finds its own norms and values to practice as laws.
3 min readMar 21, 2022
* England lived under common law with inalienable ‘God-given’ rights for many centuries. No further laws required. Unfortunately early in the 20th century the primacy of parliamentary law was established and the steady erosion of our rights has followed ever since. Uncoincidentally the has been accompanied by a steady decline in educational standards and the gradual removal of common law from legal and judiciary training, so that while common law is technically still in effect it is extremely difficult to successfully challenge these phoney modern laws with it. Reasserting the primacy of common law would undo a lot of the evil which has dogged this country over the last century or more…
* Yes, if it’s moralistic…
