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

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

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

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

Law is an ass, an idiot.

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.