John Cameron on magistrates substituting the law for their will

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Reformed Covenanter

Cancelled Commissioner
And as wicked Magistrates, and the corrupters of justice in a common-wealth, make the authority of the laws to depend upon theirs, under good and popular colours of a pretended obscurity, & imperfection in them, that so there may be a gate opened to all liberty, in substituting in the room of the laws, their own wills, and particular passions.

John Cameron, An examination of those plausible appearances which seem most to commend the Romish Church, and to prejudice the Reformed. Discovering them to be but mere shifts, purposely invented, to hinder an exact trial of doctrine by the Scriptures, trans. William Pinke (Oxford: Edward Forrest, 1626), p. 20.
 
I wonder if laws are at times written to be intentionally obscure, and I think others are probably worded to be over-severe so that, whenever the government wishes, they may have a legal advantage in certain matters. That is, to favor their own will.
 
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