Salus populi suprema lex esto

Salus publica suprema lex esto in the Swiss Parliament.

Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin: "The health [welfare, good, salvation, felicity] of the people should be the supreme law"; "Let the good [or safety] of the people be the supreme [or highest] law";[1] or "The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law") is a maxim or principle found in Cicero's De Legibus (book III, part III, sub. VIII).[2]

  1. ^ Cicero, M. T., & Keyes, C. W. (1928). De Re Publica. De Legibus, Loeb Classics, p. 467.
  2. ^ Cicero, Marcus Tullius. de Legibus. Vol. III. Free full text from the Latin Library. Retrieved on 2007-06-08.

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