If this guide and restraint were taken away, the king would be invested with an arbitrary and most dangerous power in. making arrests, and confining in prison, under pretence of an intention to bring to trial.
Spooner warns against the dangers of unchecked power in the hands of a king regarding arrests and imprisonment.
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