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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke
Law, Perfection, Common
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England bk. 2, ch. 6 (1628)
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.