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Show [22] [ 23 ] as it does not appear that the Parliament any formal flflent to the faid Aft, the of Ireland ever acknowledged or gave fame mull neceflarily be confidered as a. mere any land have an inherent Right to enaé‘t Laws independent of the Britilh Parliament ; otherwife the King's flfin! would not be fuflicient to render the {aid laws run/id am/ [um/lug without the efpecial approbation and conient alfo of the Britilh Parliament, which indeed is "over rrguizt'rl; fifar 1': i/frum [lei/2g Izéaflin'y ! And, farther, the inhabitants of Grent-Britain would think it extremely unreafonable and unjutt, if the Parliament of Ireland fhould claim a Right of making Laws, ""Itllnml ‘ I "‘ IA?" I t with the King's flirt-mt, to bind my part of l/Jit l/laml.' The argument is reciprocal: {0 that, if we lhould really detefi inch 3 meafure againil ourfelves, 1/2: Law 9f Law: forbids us to claim the like power over any of our fellow-fubjet‘ts, without their free confent. " N021 fnritu alleri gum! till mm wit ficri." This is laid down as one of the molt common precepts of the Law chm/m (D061. and Stud. c. 2, p. 7.); and :l'uch is the immutability of the Lawrf Rea/021, that againtt it there can be no prrj/Eriptim, flame, or at]; tom; and if any are made contrary thereto, they are not to be Cliccmcd flatultr 01‘ cuflomr, but (orruptelrg, i. :. Corruptions or Depravities - " Non funt fia" tuta five confuetudines, fed corruptelre." Doét. and Stud. c. 2, p. 5. To the fame efl'eét is that Command of Chrill himfelt‘, (recorded in Matt. vii. 12.) which our Lord declared to be " tbe Law and [/15 Pro- " plm': g" viz. " Il'bzzr/ocrwrje would Ilia! mmfivauld 1/0 " rayon, days wen/22201.95»; .- far 117/) ll THE LAW AND " THE PROPHETS": {0 that it may juilly be intitled, the Law zf Law: ; and a fiatute, therefore, which is Contrary tht'rcto, is deadly unlawful. The The feparate interelts ofthe two Kingdoms are fulficiently reflrnined, with refpeét to each other, by our excellent Conflitution of State, which requires tlze Af- fem oft/J! People, (that is of theft: which are concerned refpeétively,) to render any Latw rvalid and dim/ingupon either nation ; which the foregomg arguments demonttrate: and I hope the ingenious and {enfible author of the argument in defence of the Colonies (lately publilhed) will acknowledge, that he has aL lowed too much, when he admits, in page "4, that " tlJe rwlmle Hugh/(7m of Inland 1': dormd Ky {/13 {767; oft/.32 " fir/fining Ltgl/laturt, Sac." which doe'trine leads him afterwards to make a diltinétion between Taxation and. Legillation. ' And again, the two kingdoms are {0 firmly united, by the hind: cf Allegiance, to one Head (or Monarchy) of limitrdparwer, that their interel'ts in all material external exigences are thereby rtmlered mutual, as well as their internal interelt, in the maintenance of natural and canflitutz'onal Liberty, in each kingdom rcfpee‘tively ; becaufe one of them cannot be deprived of this, (as they are governed by tbe fame Head,) tvithounhaf'tening the deitrué‘tion of the other. And this intimate connexiOn of mutual intertfl in the confiitution of Rate, and in the reciprocal enjoyment of the/22m: rmjimable rommon La-w, (whereby each kingdom enjoys an Equality of privilege, and natural freedom) ren- ders the Union of the two kingdoms mre ju/lmm' quiml/le, and, confequently, mare fly": 1:22.! Manila. ti .m |