enlightenment thinkers was unwittingly conflated with the theory offered by philosophers like thomas aquinas and story himself was guilty of this confusion on occasion. fortunately, however, we need not detain ourselves with the differences between natural law and natural rights. what i wish to examine tend to parallel fairly well, albeit perfectly, those of the classic natural law tradition. let us begin by examining stories understanding the relationship of natural law, the law that exists without any human author and positive law, the kind of man made law that congress passes and that i interpret in my everyday role as a judge. in addition to being a justice of the supreme court, the story, as you have heard, is one of the great legal scholars of the day. he was a professor at my home or on the matter and as a professor that he produced his famous commentaries on the constitution would serve as the a textbook for his course on constitutional law. given his extensive body of scholarship, it is unsurprising that he penned an encyclopedia entry on natural law, which appeared in this encyclop