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Hugo Grotius
==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>
==The Author of Nature==
''Nature'' and ''God'' are intricately connected, as early philosophers made clear:
{{cquote|Natural right is the dictate of right reason, shewing the moral turpitude, or moral necessity, of any act from its agreement or disagreement with a rational nature, and consequently that such an act is either forbidden or commanded by God, the author of nature.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.constitution.org/gro/djbp_101.htm|title=De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace)|date=1625|author=[[Hugo Grotius]]}}</ref> - [[Hugo Grotius]], On the Law of War and Peace}}
==See Also==
==See Also==