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Show [42] I 43 3 1 Limitation of the Power given to the General tion of this Claufe isjuft, " that it is a Referve of Power and Authority to Parliament to bind as by Court." But we would {lill recur to the Char- tcr itfelF, and alk your Excellency. How this ap~ ears from thence to have been the Sonic ofour Predeccflors .7 Is any Reliervation of Power and Authority to Parliament thus to bind us, exprefl2 ed or implied in the Charter 3 it is evident, that King Charles the firfl, the very Prince who granted it, as well as his Predeecflor, had no fudh Idea of the luprenie Authority of Parliament over the Colony, from their Declarations before recited. Your Excellencv will then allow us further to alk, by what Authority in Realim or Equity the Parliament can enforce a Conflrnftion lo unfaz- fuch Laws as are made exprelly to refer to us." it is not only "a Limitation of the Power given to the General Court" to Leglflate, but it may whenever the Parliament lhait (hit-k fit, rt not r it of no 'Efll'c‘? ; for it puts it in the Pow er of Pan ,liai‘nent to bind us by as many Laws as they pleafe, and even to reflrain us from making any Laws at all. IF your Excellency's Atifirtions in this and the next lhcceeding Part of your hpr'ech were well grounded, the Conclufion mold he undeniable, that the Charter even in this Clanfe, " does not confer or refervc any Liherties' worth Which with Suhmillion to your Excellency may enjoying, "but what would have been enjoyed without it ; " raving that within any of his Majetty's Dominions we are to he confidered barely be rendered thus, li'ltrzretter it originally in it; as not z'zlienr. lVfllllfe wrarg, can never [re/atifed or made right " he contended that by the Liberties offrec and natural Subjects" (which are esprefly granted in wuraHe to us. erar/ 0!} indie Eryn/hm; 6/}, mu'a 111m pate/I buderejuri: gfefium, laid Grant/5. 12} Reputation and Ufa. In folemn Agreements fubfeqttent Refltié‘tions ought never to be allowed. The celebrated Au- thor Whom your Excellency has quoted, tells us You are plea led to fay, it cannot the Charter to all Intents, Porpofes, and Conllrué'tions whatever) "is to underflood an Exemp‘ tionlrom A83 of Parliament hecaule not reprefented there ; Peeing it is provided by the: lame Charter that {och Acts {hall be in Force. " If, that " neither the one or the other of the interCllCtl 0r Cuntrafting Powers hath a right to interpret at Plealitre." This we mention to lhow, even upon a Suppofition that the Parliament had Town of D. the fame Liberties which London has, this {hall he intended the like Liberties." A been a Party to the Contract, the Invalidity of .Grant of the Liberties of free and natural Sol» any 0f llS fulfilcquent Acts, to explain any Clanlfle lects is equivalent to a Grant of the lame Lihcr- m the Charter; more efpecially to relhié‘t or ties. make void any Claufe granted therein to the Genernl Court. An Agreement ought to be interPfeletl "in {och a Manner as thati it may have m L158 :" But" ifyout Excelleney's lnternrcrataatt lays an eminent Lawyer, " the King grants to the And the King in the lirt'l Charter to this Colony exprefsly grants that it {hall be confirmed, reputed and adjudged in all Cafes molt favourably on the lle-halfand for the Benefit and Behoof of {he {ind Governor and Company and their Such CL‘lTul‘Sr-"t |