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 to add, to their confirmation of the Charters, that, “if any STATUTE be made to the contrary, that shall be HOLDEN FOR NONE.” And the reason is plain; for no Statute whatever (eodem modo constituitur) is ordained by so great Authority as that which Magna Charta has at length acquired, by the express confirmation, from time to time, of so many different Kings and Parliaments: (68) The wisdom of ages has made it venerable, and stamped it with an authority equal to the Constitution itself, of which it is, in reality, a most essential and fundamental part; so that any attempt to repeal (69) it would be treason to the state!