In every patent of office the duty is included.

For what else does a magistrate exist?
To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea.

Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.

We may bite our chains, if we will, but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is born to be governed by law; and he that will substitute _will_ in the place of it is an enemy to GOD.
Despotism does not in the smallest degree abrogate, alter, or lessen any one duty of any one relation of life, or weaken the force or obligation of any one engagement or contract whatsoever.

Despotism, if it means anything that is at all defensible, means a mode of government bound by no written rules, and coerced by no controlling magistracies or well-settled orders in the state.