This is #important
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHIBMUfypJ0
“the state may do nothing but do which is expressly authorised by law, while the individual may do anything but that which is forbidden by law” Entick -v- Carrington 1765
“The common law will control Acts of Parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void; for when an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be per-formed, the common law will control it and adjudge such Act to be void.” Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)
‘’And I do declare That noe forreigne Prince Person Prelate, State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authoritie Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realme Soe helpe me God.’’ … ‘’Shall Stand Remaine and be the Law of this Realme For Ever.’’ English Bill Of Rights 1689
Both Magna Carta and the Declaration of Rights are contracts between the sovereign and the people. Because they are not statute law they cannot be repealed. Both proclaimed what were taken to be self-evident freedoms which exist by right. Equally, both were based on a concept of permanence.
Inter Alia - among other things.
Juramentum est indivisibile et non est admittendum in parte verum et in parte falsum - An oath is indivisible and it is not to be held partly true and partly false.
Jurare est Deum in testem vocare, et est actus divini cultus - To swear is to call God to witness and is an act of divine worship.
Lex non a rege est violanda - The law must not be violated even by the king.
Rex Debet Esse Sub Lege, Quia Lex Facit Regem - The king should be subject to the law for the law makes the king.
Quod Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege - The king is under no man, yet he is under God and the law, for the law makes the king.
Consensus facit legem - Consent makes the law and without consent there is no law.
Ignorantia juris non excusat - ignorance of the law excuses not.
Ignorantia legis neminem excusat - Ignorance of law excuses no one.
Felonia implicatur in qualibet proditione - Felony is implied in every treason.
In alta proditione nullus potest esse acessorius; sed principalis solum modo - In high treason no one can be an accessory; but a principal only.
Voluntas Aegroti Suprema Lex - Over his or her own mind and body, the individual is Sovereign.
Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur - The laws sometimes sleep, but never die
Angliae jura in omni casu libertati dant favorem - The laws of England are favorable in every case to #liberty.
"Luminous Liberty Bell", Philadelphia, PA
