In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib. -William Blackstone

 

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib.


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

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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.

William Blackstone

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

William Blackstone

She has figured out what she needs to say and to whom she needs to say it. If at the end of her rainbow, she saw a Senate seat in New York and nothing other than that, you would see a radically different Hillary Clinton.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone