ted and indefinite diſcretionary power; to prevent which is the ſole aim of all our laws, and was the ſole cauſe of all thoſe diſturbances and revolutions, which formerly diſtracted this unhappy country; for our anceſtors, by their own fatal experiences, well knew, that in a ſtate, where diſcretion begins, law, liberty, and ſafety end. Under the pretence of this diſcretion, or, as it was formerly, and has been lately called—law of ſtate—we have ſeen:
“English ſubjects, and even a member of of the britiſh legiſlature, arreſted by virtue of a general warrant, iſſued by a ſecretary of ſtate, contrary to the law of the land:
“Their houſes rifled and plundered, their papers ſeized, and uſed as evidence upon trial:
“Their bodies committed to cloſe impriſonment:
“The Habeas Corpus eluded:
“Trial by jury diſcountenanced, and the firſt law-officer of the crown publicly inſinuating that juries are not to be truſted:
