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 is allowed that a man attainted of felony cannot it in Parliament, and the Commons probably judged, that not being bound to the forms of law, they might treat thee as felons, whoe crimes were in their opinion equivalent to felony; and that as a known felon could not be choen, a man o like a felon, that he could not eaily be ditinguihed, ought to be expelled.

firt laws had no law to enforce them, the firt authority was contituted by itelf. The power exercied by the Houe of Commons is of this kind, a power rooted in the principles of government, and branched out by occaional practice; a power which neceity made jut, and precedents have made legal.

will occur that authority thus uncontrolable may, in times of heat and contet, be oppreively and injuriouly exerted, and