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Show i 25 l ( 27 ) is that concerning the Convocation of the Cler» gy; and to this, what I have {aid on the head may be {aid agoinfl this right .9 I {hall confidera of the diallifl‘ed religion, inafinuch as eeeltflez- There is nothing {0 much talked of, and yet flied! matters have nothing to do with civil nothing {0 little underflood, as the Engli/la Com flitm‘ion. Every man quotes it, and upon every concerns, may here be applied. But I do not reeolleét that, in bringing the Convocation of occafion too: but few know where to find it. If one enquire after it, an Aét of Parliament is the Clergy to its prefent formal {late only, there was any exertion of power of any kind to this end. bargain. If I remember aright it was a It was agreed that, on their Convo- cations becoming merely paliive, the beneficed Clergy fhould pay no further fubfidies ‘ to the government, as they ufed to do in Convocation ; and that they fhould be repre/ented in Parliament, by being allowed to vote at the eleetions for Knights of the Shire: for before this they Were not reprefmr‘ed in Parliament, but in their own Convocations; and therefore Parliament had no rig/32‘ to tax them, nor were they taxed by Parliament, notwithf'tanding its unlimited power, and " the compleatnefs of its legiflative ‘5 authority over this kingdom." ' ‘ If this then be the refult of thefe precedents, and the State of what has been offered by Mr. Burke for this arbitrary rig/at in Parliament, extending even to Religion itfelf, and whofe produced. If you all: what it is, you are told it is the Law. Strange mif'cake l The Conflitzr- Zion and the Law are not the fame. They dif- fer and in what manner Iwill endeavour to point out. In the great mac/Jim of State there are found three principal powers, with a variety of others fubordinate to them ; particularly the Prerogative of the Crown: which is a power there vetted not to counteraé'r the big/oer powers, but, if at any time there {hould be occafion, to fupply their deficiencies. The firPc of thefe principal Powers, is the Power of the People; the fecond, the Power of the Coil/lz'fziz‘ioiz; the third, the Power of the Low. Now the Power of the People is firt'r, becaufe, without People, there could be neither Corg/liz‘uiioiz nor Law. The Power of the Corylifm‘ion is lecond, for it is the immediate effeét of this firi't caufe; and if the People and the Coifiituz‘ioiz make the firft and the fecond Power, there is no need to prove that the Law is the third Power of the State. flower is limited only by " the mere force of It follows in the order I have laid down. " civil diferetion 5" is there nothing further that As from the People then is derived the Coiylitu- may tzo/z, |