In France the constitution is also the first of laws, and the judges have the same right to take it as the ground of their decisions, but were they to exercise this right they must perforce encroach on rights more sacred than their own, namely, on those of society, in whose name they are acting.
Hau botere judizialaren muinari berari dagokio: legezko xedapenen artean estukien lotzen dutenak aukeratzea da, nolabait ere, magistratuaren berezko eskubidea. Frantzian ere, konstituzioa da legeetako lehena, eta epaileek eskubide bera dute beren erabakien oinarritzat hartzeko;