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 1646 the proposition that the law must be in accord with reason is the major premise of the new political logic. In Regall Tyrannie discovered there is an elaborate attempt to demonstrate the essential accord of the Mosaic law and the law of reason, the author attempting to prove that each of the Ten Commandments is reasonable and natural. Lilburne in Londons Liberty In Chains defined the law of England as

The law of England is not law unless it is in accord with certain axioms of right and justice, self-evident to any rational man however mean his intellect. These axioms, comprising the law of reason, are higher even than the law of God, the Mosaic law, because that law of God is itself tried and approved by the law of reason.

Who in the last resort is judge of the consonance of a statute or an act of government with the law of reason? Here is a question that differentiates still further the radical and the parliamentary