Sentences with phrase «unquestionable authority of law»

For in truth, «No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the Common Law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own «person,» free from all restraint or interference of others [including government], unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.

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The foundation on which the Jewish establishment rested was the assumption that supreme and unquestionable authority resided in the Law of Moses and could be rightly exercised only by the governing body believed to be in true succession to the lawgiver.