Upon These Two Foundations, The Law Of

Mankind Will Not Be Reasoned Out Of The Feelings Of Humanity.

To Deny The Possibility, Nay, The Actual Existence Of Witchcraft And Sorcery, Is At Once Flatly To Contradict The Revealed Word Of God In Various Passages Both Of The Old And New Testament, And The Thing Itself Is A Truth To Which Every Nation In The World Hath, In Its Turn, Borne Testimony, By Either Example Seemingly Well Attested Or By Prohibitory Laws, Which At Least Suppose The Possibility Of A Commerce With Evil Spirits.

In All Tyrannical Governments The Supreme Magistracy, Or The Right Both Of Making And Of Enforcing The Laws, Is Vested In One And The Same Man, Or One And The Same Body Of Men; And Wherever These Two Powers Are United Together, There Can Be No Public Liberty.

[self-defense Is] Justly Called The Primary Law Of Nature, So It Is Not, Neither Can It Be In Fact, Taken Away By The Laws Of Society.

Those Rights, Then, Which God And Nature Have Established, And Are Therefore Called Natural Rights, Such As Life And Liberty, Need Not The Aid Of Human Laws To Be More Effectually Invested In Every Man Than They Are; Neither Do They Receive Any Additional Strength When Declared By The Municipal Laws To Be Inviolate. On The Contrary, No Human Legislature Has Power To Abridge Or Destroy Them, Unless The Owner Shall Himself Commit Some Act That Amounts To A Forfeiture.