Probably no people were ever more united and resolute in demanding from their king a definite and unambiguous acknowledgment of their rights and liberties, than were the English at that time.
Spooner notes the unity and determination of the English people in demanding their rights from the king during the Magna Carta's inception.
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That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.