(1) Unlike human laws which imply the existence of a lawgiver , natural laws are simply sophisticated ways of saying u2018That's the way it goes.u2019(2) It basically says that the law is whatever the lawgiver says it is.(3) So the perfect judge would have to be the perfect lawgiver , whose laws are not only infinitely complex but also ordered toward a perfectly just society.(4) As lawgiver , he reconciled dynastic and Islamic law, enforced justice, and organized provincial administration, land tenure, taxation, and educational/religious hierarchy.(5) the monarch was supreme executive, lawgiver, judge, and warrior(6) This chapter and verse makes clear that only God can be our lawgiver , judge and King.(7) Perhaps there cannot be laws without a lawgiver .(8) The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver .(9) Though we might not like most human u2018rules and laws,u2019 we might like the idea of a divine lawgiver and laws even less.(10) It is no more valid to say u2018because law suggests a lawgiver, a divine lawgiver must existu2019.(11) If a custom is outgrown, or discovered to be wrong, then some procedure must be available for lawgivers to identify a new way for society to function.(12) How many lawgivers has the world seen from Solon to this day?(13) The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby.(14) Whatever their practical usefulness (which is problematic), the kings who made them clearly wanted to seem sophisticated: lawgivers in the classical mould.(15) But there is no hint that the other great lawgivers sought even a formal ratification for their codes.(16) In international law, violators do sometimes turn out to be lawgivers .
