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 already lawful:” (28) so that no Power on earth is tolerable without a just limitation; and Law, which ought to be supreme, (29) cannot subsist where Will and Pleasure are absolute, whether it be the Will of one, of a few, or of many. (30)

A King, therefore, who presumes to act without the constitutional limitation, destroys the foundation of his own authority; for the most respectable and most ancient writer on the English Constitution assures us, that "there is no King where Will rules,” (or is absolute,) "