[lemma=the | word=□]
[lemma=the | word=Inuit]
In England democratic government has already given votes , if not precisely supreme power , to citizens who , partly because of the fairness and the regularity with which the law has been enforced for generations in Great Britain , hardly perceive the risk and ruin involved in a departure from the rule of law . Nothing can be more extravagant than what is sometimes confidently pretended by the ignorant , that the legislature exceeded its rights by this enactment ; or , if that cannot legally be advanced , that it at least violated the trust of the people , and broke in upon the ancient constitution . If the owner of the land over which the way ran stopped it up , and was sued by the wrongful possessor , a defence on the ground that the disseisor had not succeeded to the former owner 's rights would not prevail . The same word was used in alleging a right by prescription , " that he and those whose estate he hath have for time whereof memory runneth not to the contrary , " & c .; and it will be remembered that the word corresponds to the same requirement of succession there . In the first place it is nearly contemporaneous with the first appearance of the right in question .