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 null and voidy and not merely to repeal them, because the latter is not a sufficient reparation to injured justice and truth; for, as all men are fallible, it is disingenuous and highly dishonourable, in any man, Or body of men whatsoever, not to acknowledge a mistake or error, when the same is fairly demonstrated!

“The power and jurisdiction of the Parliament, for making of Laws,” is NOT therefore “so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons,” (as supposed by Lord Coke, 4 Inst. p. 36,) “within any bounds ,” since the just bounds and limits of it are so very clearly defined, as well as the due bounds of regal Power, that they fall within the judgement of every man who has common Sense to distinguish Good from Evil, or Right from Wrong; so that the imaginary OMNIPOTENCE OF PARLIAMENT is not only (