The Infinite Drama

be." The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution of the United States by the Jeffersonians (whom Lippmann would doubtless call quasi-Jacobins) to restrain the ruling classes who believed "in government by 'the rich, the wise, and the good'." In other contexts, theories of natural law have been pleaded by men of learning and reputation to justify monstrous anomalies, such as the sacred right of eight-year-old boys to work a twelve-hour day in the coal mines. A major difficulty in believing in natural law is the quantity of divergent doctrines which have at various times been espoused under its ubiquitous mantle. For example, Calhoun contended that Negro slavery was ordained of Heaven and was the order of the universe, while the Abolitionists simultaneously and with equal certitude invoked natural law to reach directly contrary conclusions. As Justice Holmes observed, "There is in all men a demand for the