Sanctions are the motives to obedience. They should be remuneratory and vindicatory. In addition to this, there should be superadded, to obedience, the favour of the ruler, and to disobedience his displeasure. The sanctions should be equivalent to the value of the precept. Prescription, or publication, is essential to the binding obligation of law.
Law is a unit.
The nature of moral agents is one. The laws of their being are precisely similar. That which will secure the highest good of one, will secure the highest good of all. Perfect conformity of heart and life to the nature and relations of moral beings, will promote the highest good of all. This course of conduct is universally obligatory.