PeaceKeepers’ work is grounded in first principles expressed in the Hexateuch, particularly Genesis 1:26, which establishes dominion as the original and foundational right of living people to steward and govern the land. Dominion is not absolute ownership, but the highest original right of stewardship — held in trust for future generations — and governance for benefit whilst living, exercised subject to obligation, purpose, and accountability.
Law binds the living through their words and actions. Authority arises only through lawful delegation and is exercised personally by those who act or govern. In law, the people are principal, and those governing are agents. By necessity, any power, institution, or rule created by an agent is derivative of the principal’s authority and remains subject to it.
Following the post-1066 settlement, conquest ceased to be a lawful basis of governance. Legitimate authority thereafter depended upon submission to the customs, laws, and peace of the people, and upon governing for the benefit of the realm. That settlement imposed fiduciary obligations upon those administering law as trustees, without extinguishing the people’s rights as beneficiaries.
From that point forward, force could no longer found lawful authority. Governance arising from force alone is unlawful; force may only ever operate as a strictly limited instrument of law, confined to necessity, proportionality, and accountability, and used solely to preserve the peace rather than to impose rule.
The law of the land — lex terrae — was affirmed in Magna Carta 1215 and Confirmatio Cartarum 1297 as the people’s customs, common law, and right. From that foundation, equity — arising from unwritten custom, conscience, and justice — developed to correct rigidity and prevent abuse. Since Magna Carta, equitable principles have prevailed where common law is defective, affirmed by prerogative in 1349, recognised statutorily in 1368, resolved by prerogative in 1616, and expressly preserved in modern form by the Senior Courts Act 1981.
Where authority is abused, equity breached, or power exercised to the prejudice of the people, justice is owed ex debito justitiae — as a matter of right, not discretion. In such circumstances, those exercising power become liable in law, including as trustees de son tort, for breach of trust and abuse of delegated authority.
The state is an instrument of administration, not a source of rights. Statutes, offices, and institutions are necessarily derivative and remain subject to the law of the land and the equitable rights of the people from whom all lawful authority ultimately derives.
PeaceKeepers promote lawful understanding, personal responsibility, and peaceful accountability, seeking the restoration of lawful balance where governance serves the people, dominion is exercised responsibly, equity prevails, and no authority is above the law.
Further information: https://peacekeepers.org.uk
Genesis → dominion → people → agency → 1066 → lex terrae → equity → accountability
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