Edmund Burke, in a famous phrase, described the laws as ‘ a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fi tted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man ’ .埃德蒙·伯克 (Edmund Burke) 用一句名言将法律描述为“一部智慧而精心设计的机器，非常适合压迫、贫困和一个民族的堕落，以及人类本性本身的堕落人类变态的聪明才智。