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Page 8 - ... restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 6 - And herein indeed consists the true excellence of the English government, that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people, by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved ; while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments.
Page 6 - Then every branch of our civil polity supports, and is supported, regulates and is regulated by the rest ; for the two houses naturally drawing in two directions of opposite interest, and the prerogative in another still different from them both, they mutually keep each other from exceeding their proper limits ; while the whole is prevented from...
Page 8 - It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves ; as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do every thing that is not naturally impossible ; and therefore some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of parliament.
Page 6 - Thus, every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by the rest ; for the two houses, naturally drawing in two directions of opposite interest, and the prerogative in another still different from them both, they mutually keep each other from exceeding their proper limits ; while the whole is prevented from separation, and artificially connected together, by the mixed nature of the crown, which is a part of the legislative, and the sole executive magistrate.
Page 8 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possiole denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime or criminal...
Page 9 - ... of the leading men in the Colony, beyond what he forcibly terms the present ' petty prizes of the paltry raffle of colonial faction.' A general Legislative Union/7 would elevate and gratify the hopes of able and aspiring men. They would no longer look with envy and wonder at the great arena of the bordering federation, but see the means of satisfying every legitimate ambition in the high offices of the Judicature and Executive Government of their own Union. Nor would...
Page 8 - The power and jurisdiction of Parliament,' says Sir Edward Coke, ' is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Page 4 - ... to individuals, and yet without burden to the community •, exciting thereby an ambitious yet laudable ardor, and generous emulation, in others. • And emulation, or virtuous ambition, is a fpring of...
Page 12 - The Members of the Legislative Council shall be appointed by the Crown under the Great Seal of the General Government, and shall hold Office during Life...