Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept