If the authority of his laws had been paramount in the judicial tribunals, it would have been paramount with the people, of course; because they would have had no alternative but submission.
Spooner argues that if the king's laws were truly authoritative, the people would have no choice but to submit to them.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.