Therefore judges were set up, at first, with discretionary powers.

But it was soon found a miserable slavery to have our lives and properties precarious, and hanging upon the arbitrary determination of any one man, or set of men.

We fled to laws as a remedy for this evil.

By these we persuaded ourselves we might know with some certainty upon what ground we stood.
But lo! differences arose upon the sense and interpretation of those laws.

Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude.