This statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-) More seriously, I think t

This statement generalizes quite well all around the world to the other kind of law, that's voted in parliament/congress... haha! ;-) More seriously, I think the word OP is looking for is theory. Nuggets aren't theory, they're really empirical by essence — observations.