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Show ( 33 ) But there is {till another objeétion, which I ( 32 ) It is therefore true, that Magna VC/Jarfa was the Aét of the People at large, and not of the Legiflature alom'. Befides: it is proved by Aéts of Parliament, that it is not an Aét of Parliament; and that Parliament (unlimited as its power is now faid to be) has no power over it at all : for it is declared by the ftatute of the mull: anticipate in order to remove. It may be objected, that if (as I have fhewn) t/oe People a made the fourre of all power in the State, in what manner is fuch‘ an idea to be reconciled With the doctrine, that " Government certainly " is‘ an Inl'titution of divine Authority ?" * for thefe (upon another occafion) are the words of 2 5th of Edw. I. that Magiza Clvarta was ob- Mr. Burke; though, he adds, that its Form: tained by the common Affl'nt of all the Realm, and the Per/Em: who adminif'ter it, all originate and that it was to be received as the Folcrz'glaz‘, or common Law of the Land. And by the from the People. What a pity that an " In" f'titution of divine Authority" fhould CVCI‘ be 43d of Edw. III. all flatutes made againfl'. found in the hands of Devils, as our Govern- Magma Cliarz‘a are declared to be void : f0 that Whilfl: Magiza Charla proves the Corz/z'ltzztz'orz to be anterior to the Law, Acts of Parliament ment fometimes unhappily is! But I do not mean to enter into the merits of this doctrine. Indeed I am bound not to do to: for I have But, in the faid, that I will not dive into myf'teries, left I be drowned; and I will keep my word. But next place, admitting Magma Cbarz‘a to be an as this faid mode of attributing to natural etfeéts fhew that it is not {object to the Law, not under the power of Parliament. flqfioraatural caufes, Aét of Parliament, Hill the objection remains without foundation. For .Magzza Clyarz‘a, be- ing not onaéi'l‘m' of new Rights, but, as I have faid before, declaratory only of thofe old Rights of the People, fome of which are of Saxon ancel'try, others coeval with the firft form of Britifh Government, is a Law only in proof of the Conflitution; and therefore fupports my pofition, that the Coiz/lz'z‘uz‘ioiz and the Law are not the fame. or mixing Church and State together, has already done a great deal of mifchief to the community ; asI perceive that the divine Right of Parliaments, like the divine Rig/52‘ of Kings, to do what is wrong, with its concomitant train, paflh‘e ooea'imce and 72mreflflmce, is now from the " Pulpit, drum ecclefiafiic, " That's beat with tilt, inftead of a Prick," ,' Vid. Thoughts on the Caufe of the prefent Difcontents, fifth edit. p. 67. But C {Ounding |