The free-born English mans plea for justice: or, A cry against post-fact laws. Being a survey of the controversies touching the late purchased titles through the true perspective of justice. By William Jackson, one who hath lived to see the famine of justice removed, and hopes to see it continue as plentifully amongst us; as food in Samaria; after the flight of these Assirians: 2 Kings, 7.

These Queries I thought fit to add for a Pallisad, about what hath been written, that if any suarle at what hath been said, he may happily first break his Teeth against these following.

• 1. Whether Might; without right be not absolute Tyranny and usurpation?
• 2. Whether to argue from the orders and injunctions of violent assemblies, be not to set up the power of the Sword, above the civil power, and conse∣quently a changing of goverment, from the rule of reason to be ruled by wil?
• 3. Whether they can be freinds to a Nation that indeavour alteration of Goverment by force. Contrary to the will of all parties related to such a Goverment?
• 4. Whether Laws are not to be the rule of our actions in this Kingdom?
• 5. Whether it be Justice to dispossess any man of his possession, by force, who is not first dispossessed by the Judgment of the Law?
• 6. Whether right be any thing else in civil societies, than a legal warran∣ting of our actions or claims by the Law of the Land?
• 7. Whether a violent possession against the Laws of the Land, be Justifiable by any honest man, good Christian, or any other than a new fashion'd Saint?
• 8. Whether: Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum qui leges Iura{que}, servat. Be not a sufficient character to know an honest man by?
• 9. And Lastly, Whether Post-fact Laws, be not the most Arbitrary Impo∣sition that can be contrived, and whether it be possible to avoid such snares if they should be allowed.

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