Overtime, the rule of law has attempted to find the essential balance between freedoms of the people and security of the people that determines the difference between just and unjust laws. For instance, say the balance of Madam Justice's scale were to break in half and flying up comes personal freedoms. The socialist reforms that do protect society today would be rendered useless, anarchy and personal responsibility will run rampant. Being the creatures that humans are, slavery and militarized weapons would be among one of the first things that comes into the hands of the populous. By allowing this, the security of others, either by being forced into slavery or being killed by some military grade bio-agent, is threatened therefor creating unjust law by creating no law. However, increasing the security to the point is not the solution either.
Security of the population is a priority, however when it is increased too far, it can rear its' head and burn out any possibility of freedom. Laws of security used with too much force turns those laws into not laws, but an excuse for government to do anything. Dictatorship, in whatever form, is an unjust. It may and has reared its' ugly head as a oligarchy, monarchy, republic, democracy. No matter what shape it takes, at the point where personal responsibility becomes the responsibility of the government is the point at which a law is unjust.
In conclusion, neither extreme freedom nor extreme security come together to form just laws. It is the combination, the middle ground that is where the laws that benefit the most are found. Just laws are not found easily, and so it is easy to create laws that make a very unjust situation, and so a point must be made to watch these laws and tend to the flock, less they become vicious creatures. The rule of law is ancient, but constantly fluctuating to meet the needs of freedom and security in the hopes of finding justice.
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