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“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”
— Address to the People of Great Britain, drafted by Jay and approved by the First Continental Congress (21 October 1774); as contained in American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 1, ed. Frank Moore, D. Appleton (1872), p. 159
“The Americans are the first people whom heaven has favoured with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing forms of government under which they should live.”
— Charge to the Grand Jury of Ulster County (1777).
“It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision ... You have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy.”
— Georgia vs. Brailsford (1794)

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