No Enactment Of Man Can Be Considered

Man Must Necessarily Be Subject To The Laws Of His Creator. This Will Of His Maker Is Called The Law Of Nature. This Law Of Nature Is Superior To Any Other. No Human Laws Are Of Any Validity If Contrary To This.

Trial By Jury Is A Privilege Of The Highest And Most Beneficial Nature [and] Our Most Important Guardian Both Of Public And Private Liberty. The Liberties Of England Cannot But Subsist So Long As This Palladium Remains Sacred And Inviolate, Not Only From All Open Attacks, ... But Also From All Secret Machinations, Which May Sap And Undermine It.

If [the Legislature] Will Positively Enact A Thing To Be Done, The Judges Are Not At Liberty To Reject It, For That Were To Set The Judicial Power Above That Of The Legislature, Which Would Be Subversive Of All Government.

The Third Absolute Right, Inherent In Every Englishman, Is That Of . . . The Sacred And Inviolable Rights Of Private Property.

Those Rights, Then, Which God And Nature Have Established, And Are Therefore Called Natural Rights, Such As Life And Liberty, Need Not The Aid Of Human Laws To Be More Effectually Invested In Every Man Than They Are; Neither Do They Receive Any Additional Strength When Declared By The Municipal Laws To Be Inviolate. On The Contrary, No Human Legislature Has Power To Abridge Or Destroy Them, Unless The Owner Shall Himself Commit Some Act That Amounts To A Forfeiture.