Just Law
The underlying mechanism that regulates the routine operation of a Just Society is the law. Law encompasses everything from prosecuting criminals and organizing taxation to regulating businesses and maintaining the military.
Just law seeks to balance competing interests and punish corruption while remaining subservient to God’s divine commandments. Because the world is constantly changing, and because we fallible humans can never achieve perfection, the laws of a Just Society must constantly be reviewed and modified. This process is the primary tool the government of a Just Society uses to pursue dynamic balance, and the importance of adaptability cannot be overstated.
Using taxation as an example, even if a perfect law could somehow be created in defiance of the natural order, setting it in stone would be disastrous because the passage of time will eventually render it completely obsolete and unjust. Every aspect of the economy is forever changing, both in the balance between facets and the creation of new industries. The tax code must be updated to account for these changes and maintain dynamic balance in the overall system or old corrections will turn into unjust burdens dragging down society as a whole. This applies to every mortal law, and so every law must be constantly reviewed and updated as necessary.
The minutia of this process will inevitably be complex with many different types of law, each with its own revision mechanism and name. Regardless of the details, law is ultimately a mortal system created and maintained to support a Just Society, and thus fallible. However, it is essential to remember that in the absence of law, people resort to the chaotic brutality of nature. Just law is created through the consensus of the citizenry, the good men who form the backbone of a Just Society. There will never be unanimous agreement on every law, but it is essential for those who disagree to trust that they are simply in the minority and that they have been outvoted by good men making an honest judgement of what they think is best for society. If it turns out the minority was right and the original law should not have been passed, good men who originally supported it will observe the law’s failure and change their views, allowing the law to be repealed or modified. This process of ongoing consent ensures that all good men accept the law is valid, obey it to the best of their ability, and support the punishment of wrongdoers.
When this is not the case, and good men believe the law is being written by and for the corrupt without the consent of good men, the checks and balances of a Just Society provide tools to correct the problem. Other laws, and most importantly God’s Divine Law, provides a legal recourse to bring down the cabal corrupting the society from within. However, when sacrilege becomes law, or when the system of checks and balances has been so completely corrupted that repair is impossible, violent overthrow of the corrupted system becomes a necessary evil. The cost of doing so will always be high, so it is not a decision to be made lightly, but when all other options are exhausted, good men will do what must be done to restore God’s light to society.
Thus, it is generally wise to obey the inevitably flawed law and seek to improve the system from within. Violence must only ever be a tool of last resort for stopping unjust laws, and society should give serious consideration to those who believe it is necessary while remaining wary of evil men looking to abuse these feedback mechanisms and bend the law to their corrupt will. The law will never be perfect, but with humility and God’s grace, we can build the best society realistically possible in this fallen world.