"If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if he does that legally, there is no objection to it."
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Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet, R. v. Hunt and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 484.
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