This blog post has been authored by Engracia Sleeswijk, ESleeswijk Consultancy
Within societies around the world, laws have been put in place to ensure that societies function. Based on an ideology, laws have been instituted to regulate, for example, a democracy. Other forms are that of communism, where one starts from the doctrine of classless and socialist achievement. Whatever your thoughts are regarding these doctrines' pros or cons, the functionality of enacting a law as an instrument to regulate still stands.Many are inclined to follow the rules, even if it is for the primary intention not to be confronted with the consequences of not following the law. It is with a sense of choice. Within the structure of rules, there is always a higher law overriding the lower one's application. Here, the higher law principle applies: This is a principle of divine or moral law that is considered superior to constitutions and enacted legisl…