"The King is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: in him there is no folly or weakness"....William Blackstone
The guy loved a strong government more than a Sumo Wrestler loves a 20000 calorie meal.
The founders viewed Blackstone as the foremost legal authority.
Now, if any legal controversy was ever suitable for the discussion of twelve men, surely it was this of the sloop Active; a mere question of fact; and the verdict is accordingly confined to fact strictly. If Judge Blackstone's opinion is looked for, he, upon trial by jury, says, "that there is no method of reversing an error in the determination of facts, but by an attaint; or a new trial, to correct the mistakes of a former verdict."
--Letter from Gouverneur Morris to John Dunlap dated April 22, 1779