Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.