Stand for Your Inheritance and Theirs! · 18 Sept Common law and constitutional principles are not abstract history — they are the foundation of your rights. Sovereignty, bodily autonomy, free will, the rejection of slavery and extortion, and the principle of informed consent all grew out of centuries of struggle to protect human dignity. People failing to live by these principles does not erase them. The law exists whether or not individuals honour it. In this country, to be truly law-abiding is