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 even to a fundamental maxim, (13) viz. “It is INIQUITOUS for any one to be a Judge in his own cause.” Partiality is, therefore, such an abomination in the eye of the law, that no Power on earth can make it lawful: for “even an Act of Parliament (says the learned Judge Hobart, Rep. 87.) “made against NATURAL EQUITY, as to make a man judge in his own case,” (the example, observe, is the very point in question,) “is VOID in itself;” for “jura naturae sunt immutabilia," and they are "leges legum."

Every King of England (apparently for the same reason) is restrained by the Law from changing or making new Laws without the assent or consent of his WHOLE Kingdom in Parliament expressed.” (