Our Saint, Thomas More, was no doubt familiar with the following from St. Thomas Aquinas:
"Human law is law inasmuch as it is in conformity with right reason and thus derives from the eternal law. But when a law is contrary to reason, it is called an unjust law; but in this case it ceases to be a law and becomes instead an act of violence.” (Summa theologiae, I-II, q. 93, a. 3, ad 2)
“Every law made by man can be called a law insofar as it derives from the natural law. But if it is somehow opposed to the natural law, then it is not really a law but rather a corruption of the law.” (Summa theologiae, I-II, q. 95, a. 2)
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