authoritys

Updated: May 18, 2025

"This was treated as an insolent contemptuous and disorderly behaviour" in the prisoner, "as declaring himself coram non judice, and putting himself on a par with them, and impeaching their authoritys and the charter; and his said protest was declared to be full of reflections, and to terrifie so far as in him lay all the authorities established by the charter."

Brooks Adams - The Emancipation of Massachusetts