Justice is the virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; honesty, integrity, impartiality; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness; the unfailing consequence of blessings for the righteous and punishment for unrepented sin; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; equal distribution of rights.
Our Founding Fathers believed in the Divine and established our new country on “the laws of nature and nature’s God”. They believed that justice is an eternal law that requires a penalty each time a law of God is broken and that equal application of the law was paramount to an honest and free society. When the King of England used his authority to unfairly apply the laws and consequences tied to them, justice became one of the key tenets that was implicit in the creation of our great Republic (“if we can keep it”). When we have laws in place that are intended to protect and create an environment for equal opportunity, only getting better with the growth of our nation, we have a safe and free society. Without an equal practice of the law, people must live in fear that anything that makes them “different” might become the thing that determines the outcome of how a law is created and applied. Sadly, our country has forgotten this lesson so sorely learned almost 250 years ago and is bound to repeat the oppressions of an unjust society if we do not stand up and declare, like our Founding Fathers in the first sentence of our founding document, the supreme law of the land, the Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in Order to …establish Justice.”
