As early as 1613, he had boldly declared in Parliament that even the King's authority rested upon the clear understanding that there were reciprocal conditions which neither ruler nor subject could violate with impunity.
Beck highlights Sir Edwin Sandys' assertion about the reciprocal conditions of authority in governance.
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The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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