Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas after Little Rock (Pulaski County) and shares status with Greenwood as the county seat of Sebastian County. Early in the history of Arkansas and the city, Fort Smith was an important point of contact to the American West.
Natural law: Natural law, in philosophy, a system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from the rules of society, or positive law. There have been several disagreements over the meaning of natural law and its relation to positive law.
Natural law, in philosophy, a system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from the rules of society, or positive law. 1  There have been several disagreements over the meaning of natural law and its relation to positive law. Aristotle (384â322 bce) held that what was âjust by natureâ was not always the same as what was âjust by law,â that there was a natural justice valid everywhere with the same force and ânot existing by peopleâs thinking this or that,â and that appeal could be made to it from positive law.