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 uch power hould reide in the Houe of Commons in ome caes, is inevitably neceary, ince it is required by every polity, that where there is a poibility of offence, there hould be a poibility of punihment. A member of the Houe cannot be cited for his conduct in Parliament before any other court; and therefore, if the Houe cannot punih him, he may attack with impunity the rights of the people, and the title of the King.

exemption from the authority of other courts was, I think, firt etablihed in favour of the five members in the long parliament. It is not to be conidered as an uurpation, for it is implied in the principles of government. If legilative powers are not co-ordinate, they ceae in part to be legilative; and if they be coordinate, they are unaccountable; for to whom mut that power account, which has no uperiour?