moral law

noun

: a general rule of right living

especially : such a rule or group of rules conceived as universal and unchanging and as having the sanction of God's will, of conscience, of man's moral nature, or of natural justice as revealed to human reason

the basic protection of rights is the moral law based on man's dignity

—Time

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