"If judges are to be intimidated so as not to give any opinion, but what is pleasing to the Govenor and agreeable to his private views, the people of this province who are very much concerned both with respect to their lives and fortunes in the freedom and independency of those who are to judge them, may possibly not think themselves so secure in either of them as the laws of his Majesty intended they should be." Lewis Morris, 15 March, 1715. (Judge and Lord Chief Judge of New York Supreme Court of Judicature.