Natural Law has been around for at least 2,000 years. It’s sometimes called God’s Law, and it isn’t new or invented. It’s the oldest tradition of law in this land, which you can see running through the Magna Carta, the common law and equity.
In fact there are 4 types of Law:-
- Natural Law
- Equity law
- Common Law
- Statute Law
Natural Law is the one we discuss in this blog because it is the overriding law of the land, and everything else stems from this.
Equity Law sits next to Natural Law and was also based on conscience, fairness and natural justice. It was developed by the Courts of Chancery (separate from Common Law courts) and includes trust law, fiduciary (of or relating to a duty of acting in good faith with regard to the interests of another). principles and equitable maxims where Common Law and Equity conflict Equity Prevails.
Common Law is also an ancient law of the land based on precedent and custom. It protects natural rights and liberties, trial by jury, presumption of innocence, due process and applies to living people in their natural capacity. It is called Constitional Law in the United States.
Statute Law only attains the force of law by the consent of the people. This is created by Parliament (legislation) and is constantly changing. Based on policy, revenue collection and social control which is enforced through courts, police and administrative bodies. Statute Law cannot overrule Common Law, Equity Law or Gods Law.
As we follow Natural (God’s) Law and Common Law, Statute law cannot over rule it.
We’re ruled under civil law, statutory law and equity law in the UK, but it has moved so far away from what it was supposed to be that people are fed up – the prisons are full, the elites get richer and the ‘common’ man has to chase his tail to pay increasing taxes and bills. Did you know that 70% of your income will be taken off you by the ‘system?’ And that’s before the various stock market crashes that seem to happen every 10 years or so with striking precision, and which siphon the money back into the banks. So instead of fighting something that lands us in prison, or fined, a growing number of people are asking a different question: what if we built something different?
In 1703, in Ashby v White, the court recognised that people have a right to a say in the laws that bind them. And the Charter of Pardon of 1508 protected the old Cornish tinners from having laws imposed on them without their agreement. For me, these show that consent has always been at the heart of our law, and it’s what the assemblies are trying to bring back into everyday life.
That’s why I became a member of the Devon Assembly of Totnes Castle, and am now training to become a peacekeeper constable. The assemblies draw on the Stannary tradition, an old West Country system of self-governance, and they’re organised around different pillars. The assembly I have joined is called CABI – Community Assembly of the British Isles. who have now just joined with the World Council for Health, which is the non corrupt replacement for the corrupt WHO (if you don’t believe that WHO is corrupt then ask yourself why the shareholders are allowed to have shares in vaccine and drug companies, even though they deal with public health? They made millions during Covid-19). In the future, other areas like food and farming and alternative schooling will be added. Cornwall, Devon and Somerset are joining together to reform the old Kernow, and become a Territory of its own.
Here’s how it works. A group of 300 people can become a Jurisdiction and adopt areas like peacekeeping. A group of 600 becomes a Territory. Each one runs on four principles:
- Do No Harm
- Commit No Fraud
- Cause No Loss
- Keep the Peace
Our assemblies have their own community courts, with the original 13 jurors, not the current 12 (thus avoiding a hung jury), where members can bring disagreements and have them heard fairly by people from their own community. But the community courts are also tackling larger issues. One of which is in North Devon where over 850,000 acres of farming land is about to be turned into massive Data Centres. There has been little discussion with the local people on this. In fact many of the local people didn’t even know it was happening.
How can the government get away with this? Because they know how to follow the laws that they created themselves. They add the notice in tiny letters on their Gov UK website for 2 months, stating that any objectors can petition parliament and then take it down without marketing it or even putting it onto the local news. As we know this is happening we are now petitioning but there is so much happening all at once that no one can keep up. The distraction in the news about world wars, pedophile rings and climate change takes up everyone’s time, and puts fear into the brain, which can’t handle it, so it creates cognitive dissonance to not deal with it. They know what they are doing, and how the brain works, which is interesting in itself.
However the tide is beginning to turn. As the UK just had it’s first vote where only 41% of people voted that should in itself be grounds for the governments to understand that the people are speaking, and the vote should not have been caste, when it falls so far under 50%. At the very least it should put into question many of the democratic laws that provide the foundations of our country, such as the payment of Council Tax. If we were actually living in a democracy then this years voting should be accounted for, and yet it has not.
There is no requirement to join an assembly though, this is purely for connection and community projects – of which there are many – you can simply study the law through websites such as notaperson.org or peacekeepers.org or even the thousands of YouTube videos around constitutional and natural or common law.
Together we are stronger.
Elisabeth x
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