So much for the law.

It is as plain as a pikestaff.

It is printed in the books in words of one syllable.

So far as the law is concerned we have done our best to perpetuate the theories of those who, fearing that they might be arrested without a hearing, transported for trial, and convicted in a king's court before a king's judge for a crime they knew nothing of, insisted on "liberty or death." They had had enough of kings and their ways.

Hereafter they were to have "a government of laws and not of men." But the unfortunate fact remains that all laws, however perfect, must in the end be administered by imperfect men.