Rather than reply to your antagonistic question, I would rather respond to your posted quote by Confucius.
If what he says is true, then proper government begins with order first before law can be later implemented. It isn't law and order as civilized sophisticates like to claim but order first and then law.
We can see that example with Moses when God used him first to established a proper order first before finally bringing him to the top of a mountain where He established the ten commandments as law.
Before tyranny can erode people to living under the persecution of a legal institution, the order under which they live first needs to be abolished. After all, we don't live under a law; but, rather, because they maintain the order under which we live, we abide by the law. It is during the periods of erosions that our words lose their meaning.
Long before any laws were established regarding the "positive" type government, the Greek philosophers created order out of chaos by developing three distinct dialectics -- truth engines which output quality truths from the inputting of raw data. Positive government -- the concept that every person in a civilization can enjoy contentment not just the master class. These three truth engines were the Socratic "Dialectical" process, the Platonic "Theory of the Forms" process, and, finally, the Aristotilean "Formal Logic" process. These definitive processes together gave meaning to Greek words which worked eventually to, as Confucius observed, free Greek civilization.
The Greeks are the ones who planted the seeds for the modern concept of "positive" government. To maintain this government of inequity required the establishment of certain kinds of laws. It isn't the laws that are being threatened today but the order under which the laws are foundational pillars.
