C/L/142. What, if any, relationship is there between law and justice?

To understand the fundamental principles of law and justice one must look at the period surrounding the Enlightenment because this is the time when the individual became an important entity, no longer was the individual part of a class on a hierarchical structure, with power relating to that class. The natural rights theorists aim was to show that man was born in a state of nature, and given the right to do as he/she wished, but this was sacrificed to the governance of the land, i.e. that the rational man would give up the state of freedom, for the security and safety of law, governance and sovereignty. This argument is going to look at these theories and illustrate that law and justice are inextricably linked in modern democratic systems, as per the original intentions of western legal thinkers.