Definition of higher law
: a principle of divine or moral law that is considered to be superior to constitutions and enacted legislation
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Because protecting the people of the United States should be our highest law.
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Bitcoin can get by without banks or governments because algorithms are its highest law.
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In these states, there is no higher law than progressive cultural orthodoxy and even dissenting citizens can be conscripted into the ideological crusade.
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And where abolitionists preached slavery as a violation against the higher law, Southerners angrily countered with their own version of the deity, that it was sanctioned by the Constitution.
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In a very real sense, Becerra’s presence as the highest law enforcement official in California is a rebuke to those who willfully refuse to fix a broken system.
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