“As Kraynak notes, “the Founders believed that freedom was based on moral order, not moral relativism.” They drew their natural law principles from John Locke, Cicero, and others, as well as from the strong natural law tradition in Christian thought. Thus, for Kraynak, “Without natural law – meaning an objective moral law put into nature and human nature by the Creator – the ideal of republican liberty lacks an ultimate foundation.”13 The.”
