(30) Locke states: "The legislative, or supreme authority, cannot assume to its self a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice, and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges: for the law of nature being unwritten, and so no where to be found but in the minds of men, they who through passion or interest shall
miscite, or misapply it"; see John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1980), sec.