[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures..… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
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