"It is not the cause of one poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every free man that lives under a British government on the main [continent] of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty. . . . Nature and the laws of our country have given us a right to liberty of both imposing and opposing arbitrary power (in these parts of the world at least) by speaking and writing the truth."- Andrew Hamilton, 1735 This courtroom summation helped establish which democratic principle in colonial America