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Show [ 3I ] " is already lawful :" (28) [0 that no Power on earth is tolerable without a jlfl limitation; and Law, which ought to be fupreme, (29) cannot fubfif't where Will and Plea/tire are abfolute, whether it be the P727! of one, of a fiw, or of many. (30) A King, therefore, who prefumes to aft without the confiitutional limitation, defiroys the foundation of his own aut/Jority; for the moft refpeétable and moft ancient writer on the Englifh Con- fiitution aflures us, that " t/Jere i5 710 " King where I/Vi/l rules," (or is aéfo- lute,) (:8) " Cui plus licet quam par cit, flu: «wilt quam ‘L licct." 21ml. 4.65. Zute,) " and not Law."(31) The fame doctrine is exprefied flill more clearly in the old Year Books, (32) that, " if " there was no Lit-w, there would be " 720 King, and no inheritance." For thefe plain reafons, whenever the Englifh Government ceafes to &e limited, in any part of the Britilh Dominions, it ceafes to be lawjiil ! And therefore the fatal confequcnces of proceeding to enforce the execution of any Acts, or Refolutions, for the eftablifhing tur fiat/mm: et pots/latent .' 71072 {@0113}: rtx 115i damina 8. c. I, lib. ‘Z'O/Illlftlj, et non 13x." Brafton, Item Rex nutem habet fuperiorem, Deum. S. . fuam, lager», per gnaw/@6714: {/1 rer. -- Item curmrtl (29) " Firmior ct potentior eft operatic legi: quam " diibofltio hominis." Co. Lit. xoz. e.fine &c. ------ Et idea {i rex fuel-it flzlefrtena, 1. 2, 11b. Braft. Ur. ," ponerc m fraenu ei legs, debent c. 21, p- 34 (go) " Whofoevcr" (fays Ariflotle) " is governed " by a man 'L‘Ji/lmzlt La w, 15 gove rned by a 7mm and " 151a lvmfl." Lord Sommers, N. n. " pre autem rex, non debet eiTe fub homine, fed fiié (I 'Dto, (Ft/1.45 legs; gain [ex facit regain. Attribuat 1g1tur rcx Ifgi quod Iix attribuit ei, videlicet domi" italicize": 4' (31) -' " AM {/1 mm rex ubl dJmmatur rvolmztm, ' . I ‘ . c t " mm 15x." Braét. Iib.1, C.8, p. 5, b. (32) " - La i'iy cit lc plus hnute inheritance qfue " lercy ad: car par 13 [6} il meme et touts fes u-I " jets font rules, et 4/] [e {a} 7:5 (nit, NUL ROI, :1 7m " iii/I'fz‘itaiXE, java." 19 Hen. V). 63. |