1) There are three tests of civil liberty: Equality of rights; equality of taxation; freedom to come and go. 

 

2) There are three causes which ruin a state: Inordinate privileges; corruption of justice; national apathy. 

 

3) There are three things which cannot be considered solid longer than their foundations are solid: Peace; property; and Law. 

 

4)Three things are indispensable to a true union of nations: Sameness of laws; rights; and language. 

 

5) There are three things free to all Britons: The forest, the unworked mine, the right of hunting wild creatures. 

 

6) There are three things which are private and sacred property in everyman, Briton or foreigner: His wife, his children, his domestic chattels. 

 

7) There are three things belonging to a man which no law of men can touch, fine, or transfer: His wife, his children, and the instruments of his calling: for no law can unman a man, or uncall a calling. 

 

8) There are three persons in a family exempted from all manual or menial work: The little child, the old man or woman, and the family instructor. 

 

9) There are three orders against whom no weapon can be barred: The herald, the bard, the head of a clan. 

 

10) There are three of private rank against whom no weapon can be barred: A woman, a child under fifteen, and an unarmed man. 

 

11) There are three things that require the unanimous vote of the nation to effect: Deposition of the sovereign, introduction of moralities in religion, suspension of law. 

 

12) There are three civil birthrights of every Briton: The right to go wherever he pleases, the right, wherever he is , to protection from his land and sovereign, the right of equal privileges and equal restrictions. 

 

13) There are three property birthrights of every Briton: Five (British) acres of land for a home, the right or armorial bearings, the right of suffrage in the enacting of the laws, the male at twenty-one, the female on her marriage. 

 

14) There are three guarantees of the society: Security for life and limb, security for property, security of the rights of nature. 

 

15) There are three sons of captives who free themselves: A bard, a scholar, a mechanic. 

 

16) There are three things the safety of which depends on that of the others: The sovereignty, national courage, just administration of the laws. 

 

17) There are three things which every Briton may be legally compelled to attend: The worship of God, Military service, and the courts of law. 

 

18) For three things a Briton is pronounced a traitor, and forfeits his rights: Emigration, colusion with an enemy, surrendering himself and living under an enemy. 

 

19) There are three things free to every man, Briton or foreigner, the refusal of which no law will justify: Water from spring, river, or well, firing from a decayed tree, a block of stone not in use. 

 

20) There are three orders who are exempt from bearing arms: The bard, the judge, the graduate in religion. These represent God and his peace, and no weapon must ever be found in their hand. 

 

21) There are three kinds of sonship: A son by marriage with a native Briton and illegitimate son acknowledged on oath by his father, a son adopted out of the clan. 

 

22) There are three whose power is Kingly in law: The sovereign paramount of Briton over all Britain and it's isles, The princes palatine in their princedoms, the heads of the clan in their clans. 

 

23) There are three thieves who shall not suffer punishment: A woman compelled by her husband, a child, a necessitous person who has gone through three towns and to nine houses in each town without being able to obtain charity though he asked for it. 

 

24) There are three ends of law: Prevention of wrong, punishment for wrong inflicted, insurance of just retribution. 

 

25) There are three lawful castigations: of a son by a father, of a kinsman by the head of a clann, of a soldier by his officer. The chief of a clan when marshalling his men may strike his man three ways: with his baton, with the flat of his sword, with his open hand. Each of these is a correction, not an insult. 

 

26) There are three sacred things by which the conscience binds itself to truth: The name of God, the rod of him who offers prayers to God, The joined right hand. 

 

27) There are three persons who have the right to public maintenance: The old, the babe, the foreigner who cannot speak the British tongue.