fundamental law

The outraged grammar stickler mistakes a convention for an immutable and fundamental law of the universe.

A constitution is the fundamental law of the state; and this is expressly declared to be the supreme law.

So love is the fulfilling of the law: not merely "a" law, but the very fundamental law on which our continued existence hangs.

They will discuss it, and must adopt it before it can become a part of the fundamental law.

To give freedom through freedom is the fundamental law of this realm.

It was the Union, and not the States, severally, which made slavery part and parcel of the fundamental law of the land.