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>>931046
You are right about Nietzsche, should have clarified that I meant the original 17th/18th century pioneers of the ideology. That it led to Nietzsche is indisputable. And modern thought more closely follows his ideas than the older thinkers.

But yes, early liberals wanted just, accountable government, but government none the less. Not all natural law theorists were liberals, either. Hobbes thought that absolute government was necessary to keep man's bestial nature in check. Later liberals disagreed with Hobbes' conclusions, but not his claims of man's natural state.

I don't agree with everything they argued, and they did not have access to later science, but it is important to know exactly what the actual idea of natural law is, I think.