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 Houe of Commons is indeed dioluble by the King, as the nation has of late been very clamorouly told; but while it ubits it is co-ordinate with the other powers, and this co-ordination ceaes only when the Houe by diolution ceaes to ubit.

the particular repreentatives of the people are in their public character above the control of the courts of law, they mut be ubject to the juridiction of the Houe, and as the Houe, in the exercie of its authority, can be neither directed nor retrained, its own reolutions mut be its laws, at leat, if there is no antecedent deciion of the whole legilature.

privilege, not confirmed by any written law or poitive compact, but by the reitles power of political neceity, they have exercied, probably from their firt intitution, but certainly, as their