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Show [72] [73] with any Delign, bttt the equivocal Uf'e of the Thus, I think, I have made it appear that the Word Realm in leveral Parts of your [stalker makes them perplexed and oblcure.‘ Sometimes, you mull intend the whole Dominion which ts Plantations, though not firiélly within theRealm, .have from the Beginning been conflitutionally fiibjet‘t to the Supreme Authority of the Realm {object to the Authority of Parliament. fomettmes and are {0 far annexed to it as to be, with the only llriétly the Territorial Realm to which orher ~Dominions are or may be annexed. If you mean that no Countries but the ancient territorial Realm and the other Dependencies upon it, one Realm can conflitutionally he {object to the Su- as feudatory of the Imperial Crown of England; preme Authority of England, which you have Deem it to be no Part of the Realm it is immaa terial, for, to tile the Words of a very great very incantioully {aid is a Rule of the Common lony of Nlaflachttfetts-Bay in particular is holdcn Law of England, this is a Doctrine whteh you Authority in a Cale in fome Relpeels analogous, That the Corn- " being Feudatory the Conclulion neeeflary fol;- mon Law {hiuld be controuled and changed by lows, that it is under the Government of the Statutes every Day's Experience teaches, but King's Laws and the King's Courts in Cafes r0per for them to interpofe, though (like Counties will never be able to fitpport. Illllll intire Dominion ; and that the Plantation or C0- that the Common Law prefcribes Limits to the Extent of the Legillative Power, I believe has never been laid upon any other Occalion. That Aéls of Parliament for leveral Hundred Years Palatine) it has peculiar Laws and Culloms, J'ura pall have refpeéted Countries, which are not flriétly within the Realm, you might ealily have Your Remark upon and Conflruélion of the difeovered by the Statute Books. You will find Ac‘ls for regulating the Allairs of Ireland, though a {operate and dillinél Kingdom. Wales and Calais, whill't they fent no Reprel‘entatives to Parliament, were fubjeél to the like Regulations. So are Guernley, Jerl'ey, Alderney, See. which fend no Members to this Day. Thele Countries are not more properly aPart of the ancientRealm, than thePlahtations, nor do I know that they can more properly be laid to be annexed to theRealm. ttnlcls the declaring that Acts of Parliament {hall extend to Wales, though not particularly named lhall make it 12:, which I conceive it does not in the Senfe you intend. Thu»; Regalia, and complete Jurifdit‘lion at Home}? Words, not Refugee»! .ta tire Law: 0/ Eng/grid, are much the fame with thofe of the Council; but can any Reafon be alligned why the Laws of England as they flood jolt at that Period lhould be pitched upon as the Standard, more than at any other Period ? If lb, why was it not recured to when the Fecond Charter was Granted, more than fixty Years after the lirll ? It is not improbable that the original Intention might be a Repugnmcy in general and, a‘ FortiOri, fiich aws as were made more immediately to Refpeét us, but the Statute of 7th and 8th, of King William and Queen Mary, liion after the {econd Charter, favours the latter Conllrut‘tion only, and the Province. Agent, Mr. Dummer, in his much A applauded |