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

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

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

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

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.