higher law

noun

: a principle of divine or moral law that is considered to be superior to constitutions and enacted legislation

Examples of higher law in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There is no higher law of overriding morality, and there's also no responsibility. — CBS News, 13 July 2024

Measured against the sweep of Anglo-American legal history, judicial review—the power of unelected judges to invalidate, as contrary to higher law, an act of the legislature—was a radical development. — Raymond Kethledge, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2021

This was expected; such sanctuary was understood purely as moral confrontation, proclaiming a righteous and sheltering higher law. — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020

No call for revenge, or for putting history on trial; only an appeal to a higher law. — Olivier Rolin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1593, in the meaning defined above

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