Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

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

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

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.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

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