Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
Samuel Rutherford, George Buchanan, Robert Macfarlan (1843). “Lex, Rex, Or, The Law and the Prince: A Dispute for the Just Prerogative of King and People: Containing the Reasons and Causes of the Most Necessary Defensive Wars of the Kingdom of Scotland. In which ... a Full Answer is Given to a Seditious Pamphlet, Entituled, Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas, Or, The Sacred and Royall Prerogative of Christian Kings”, p.51