Again:—
“Since, therefore, the law is chiefly right reason, if we are bound to obey a magistrate as a minister of God, by the very same reason and the very same law, we ought to resist a tyrant, and minister of the devil.”
DR. JOHNSON says:—
“No man is by nature the property of another. The rights of nature must be some way forfeited before they can justly be taken away.”
DR. PRICE says:—
“If you have a right to make another man a slave, he has a right to make you a slave.”
BLACKSTONE says:—
“If neither captivity nor contract can, by the plain law of nature and reason, reduce the parent to a state of slavery, much less can they reduce the offspring.”
Again, he says:—
“The primary aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature. Hence it follows that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain those absolute rights of individuals.”