All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

恰当地说，所有人类的法律都只是宣告性的;他们对原始正义的实质没有权力。

-- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克