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Show Sect. 11. ACTS RELATING S E C T. ll. Can flm operaliozzr q)" My whole body of tlve lrgflszturc dc refli'azmd Ky any (152‘ 9" the Crown .3 9T0 anfwer this queltion it will be 11ecellary to Rate, and difiinguiih, the feveral capacities in which the king may be confidered as acting. The king gives his aflEnt to a bill propofed to him by the two honfes of parliament. The bill becomes a law. TO THE CoLONxEs. 27 afis here as a confiituent part of parliament. His confent to a bill is not [0 much the exercife of any pofitive power, as the non~exercife of a negative power. The initiative, that is, the power of put- ting the legiflative in motion, is the func- tion of the other confiituent parts of parliament. To the king is referved only the tribunitial power, the power of nega- tion, of rejecting what he does not ap4 prove *. The king iHues a proclamation. This too may be a command concerning fort: That is, of actions, addreffed to forts of perfons. a command concerning for/s of actions,addrefled either to (1/! the fubjeéts of the realm in general, or to firm of fubjeéts. Here the king acts in hiskfizprcme [egg/75bzi'ac capacity. It is [egg/lathe, for the power of legiflation is the power of illu- ing commandr concerning Err: of actions. It is fupreme, becaufe it is derived from, dependent on, no other power. legiflation T. For though the command be * See Conf‘ritution del'Angleterre, pamm f I call this a power offulmrdz'zmre Irgi/latian in compliance with cul'tom. No act of the king in this capacity can be applied to the prelbnt quefiion. Such a command is an aft of legiflation. Therefore here too the king afis in a legillative capacity. The power he exercifes here is called a power of fizbordi/zatc He flfiog ow I would rather will) to call it a power of di cretionary examiazz. For tho' indeed thefe are commands concerning fort; of actions, and addrell'ed to firt: of perfam, and {0 have one |