Excerpt from The Law of the Land: Minister Phelps Address at Edinburgh, November 12, 1886 It was in this sense, beyond doubt, that the words were employed in Magna Charta. Otherwise the guarantee of personal liberty there contained would altogether lose its force. It would no longer stand declared that the liberty of the subject shall be inviolable by government; but only thatit shall find its measure and its superior, in what ever may have the form or force of law for the time being. And the charter would merely have served to re-establish the old system of arbitrary power, which it was designed to put an end to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.