higher law

noun

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

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There is no higher law of overriding morality, and there's also no responsibility. —

CBS News, 13 July 2024 Sister Megan Rice and her compatriots, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, declared this an act of protest and love in the service of a higher law, but the incident prompted a two-week shutdown of the facility, and they were charged and convicted of intending to endanger the national defense. —

Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021 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 See all Example Sentences for higher law