Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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I am determined to proceed.
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are
are to sacrifice his state, ease, health and applause, and even life itself, to the sacred call of his country.
And in fact, he comes right in and lands it.
He says, this writ, he says, appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of law that ever was found in an English law book.
He says, now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
And then he brings out this sort of cherished old metaphor.
He says, a man's house is his castle.
And whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.
This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.
And then he goes right there.
He says, no acts of parliament can establish such a writ.
No matter how parliament might word this writ, it would be void.
That's right.
He's saying parliament's law.
So understand at this time, you know, no one has really brought into an American courtroom this idea of natural rights, these notions that haven't even been written down yet.
These five appointed judges, they totally believe that parliament was supreme.
No exceptions.
So remember, in the previous century, you know, a king had lost his head.
and another his throne in this centuries-long struggle that culminated in this idea that the law of parliament is supreme.
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