Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
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A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
That which is not just is not law.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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