21 Necessitas Non Habet Legem
Cf. Bacon’s Maxims of the Law, 5: Necessitas inducit privilegium. A recognition of the jus necessitatis. See § 139.
22 Neminem Oportet Legibus Esse Sapientiorem
Bacon, De Augmentis, Lib. 8. Aph. 58. Cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric, I. 15. 12.
It is not permitted to be wiser than the laws. In the words of Hobbes (Leviathan, ch. 29), “the law is the public conscience,” and every citizen owes to it an undivided allegiance, not to be limited by any private views of justice or expediency. See § 9.