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==Commentaries on the Laws of England==
==Commentaries on the Laws of England==
Blackstone's ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England|Commentaries]]'' is another important source of Natural Law, which was highly influential in the American Colonies. It sold more copies in the colonies than it did in England.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZlRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT423|title=The Americana: a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world, Volume 21|date=1912|publisher=Scientific American compiling department}}</ref>
Blackstone's ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England|Commentaries]]'' is another important source of Natural Law, which was highly influential in the American Colonies. It sold more copies in the colonies than it did in England.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZlRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT423|title=The Americana: a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world, Volume 21|date=1912|publisher=Scientific American compiling department}}</ref>
Blackstone describes Natural Law this way:
<blockquote>For as God, when he created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the perpetual direction of that motion; so, when he created man, and endued him with free-will to conduct himself in all parts of life, he laid down certain immutable laws of human nature, whereby that free-will is in some degree regulated and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws.
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This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jihOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA26 The Commentaries on the Laws of England], pp. 26-27</ref></blockquote>
==The Author of Nature==
==The Author of Nature==