Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the Third - Chapter the First :
Self-defence therefore as it is justly called the primary law of nature, for it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away be the law of society.
10 posted on 08/30/2020 5:33:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)