When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.
Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.