It is a sufficient proof that judges, who are dependent upon lawmakers for their offices and salaries, and are responsible to them by impeachment, cannot be relied on to put the least restraint upon the acts of their masters, the lawmakers.
He asserts that judges who rely on lawmakers for their positions cannot be trusted to restrain legislative power.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.