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 to prove that the Houe of Commons can make no laws.

acts have been cited, diabling members for different terms on different occaions, and it is profoundly remarked, that if the Commons could by their own privilege have made a diqualification, their jealouy of their privileges would never have admitted the concurrent anction of the other powers.

for ever remind thee puny controvertits, that thoe acts are laws of permanent obligation: that two of them are now in force, and that the other expired only when it had fulfilled its end. Such laws the Commons cannot make; they could, perhaps, have determined for themelves, that they would expel all who hould not take the tet, but they could leave no authority behind them, that hould oblige the next Parliament to expel them. They could refue