 Economist and philosopher and noble laureate Friedrich Hayek defined legislation as the rules passed by government, passed by powerful people in an attempt to try and control and constrain society in a specifically planned way. He defined law as the rules that emerge from the interactions of people. If you look around the world all the time, if you look how people walk down the street, if you look how people ride the subway, if you're sitting in a room with a bunch of people and no one's sitting on your lap or getting too close to you, all of you are following laws and sometimes people break those laws and we figure out how to deal with it. In those situations you could describe the law as coming up from the bottom, it's coming up from the people. Now in the other situation we have legislation that comes down from the government and legislation is often a plan. Whose plan? The people and government's plan. That may not be the plan of the people who live on, let's say the ground floor and who live amongst the laws of the people. When you have those clashings of plan, when people are trying to use legislation to try and point society in a certain way, you get a lot of discord and in many instances it's not needed because the laws of the people take care of many of the problems or keep them from happening before they even happen.