Byline: Mike Feinsilber Associated Press
Ready or not, the country is about to be treated to a crash course in the arcane body of philosophy known as natural law. That's because Clarence Thomas believes in it.
Thomas calls it "higher law" - the view that some of man's rights are inherent, a part of the human condition, independent of all human authority.
Those ideas go back 2,000 years, but they still make some liberals and some conservatives nervous and senators are bound to ask Thomas lots of questions about them when he is examined on his fitness to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court.
Like other apostles of natural law, Thomas sees rights as immutable moral truths, just as the laws of nature are …
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