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Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

— William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

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Nothing therefore is to be more avoided, in a free constitution, than uniting the provinces of a judge and a minister of state.

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What they do, no authority upon earth can undo.

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