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.
Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law Theory. Natural law theory like legal positivism has appeared in a variety of forms and in many. guises. One of the most elaborate statements of natural law theory can be found in. Aquinas who distinguished four types of law: eternal, divine, natural, and man-made. So, according to Aquinas, eternal law reflected God's grand design for the whole shebang. Divine law was that set of principles revealed by Scripture, and natural law was eternal. law as it applied to human conduct.