Justice

J. Edgar Hoover is quoted as having said: “Justice is incidental to law and order.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Supreme Court justice that lived during the civil war era of the USA said about the same. He said: “This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.” Marcus Tullius Cicero is quoted as having said “The more laws, the less justice.” Clearly, the law and justice are not always synonymous. The law is NOT always just and the law does NOT always define justice.

The proposed UtopianStates would be a system of justice/fairness NOT a system of law. Every rule passed by legislators would have to show how they complied with the following three fundamental principles.

The first fundamental principle of justice is that another should not cause another loss or injury. Stated another way, injustice is the causation of loss or injury. Marcus Tullius Cicero is quoted as saying that “Justice consists in doing no injury to men.”

The second fundamental principle of justice is that all exchanges should be fair. A Latin phrase once quoted by President George Bush Sr. sums up another characteristic of the law. “Quid pro quo means what for what; something for something. This expression is used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another.

The third fundamental principle of justice is that all agreements should be fair, honest and truthful. The Latin phrase for this is “Quid turpi ex causa promissum est non valet”. This means “A promise arising out of immoral circumstances is invalid”.

The fourth fundamental principle of justice is that all rules comply not only with the fundamental principles, but with a written bill of human rights of the Utopian States.

All rules must be extrapolated and expanded with truth, fact, reason and logic. Conversely, the principles of justice shall not be compromised with law that is inconsistent with these just principles.