Page:William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (4th ed, 1770, vol IV).djvu/45

Ch. 2. fon ; which extend as well to the will as to the other qualities of his mind. I mean the cafe of the king: who, by virtue of his royal prerogative, is not under the coercive power of the law*; which will not fuppofe him capable of committing a folly, much lefs a crime. We are therefore, out of reverence and decency, to forbear any idle enquiries, of what would be the confequence if the king were to adt thus and thus : fince the law deems fo highly of his wifdom and virtue, as not even to prefume it poffible for him to do any thing inconliftent with his flation and dignity ; and therefore has made no provifion to remedy fuch a grievance. But of this fufficient was faid in a former volume", to which I muft refer the reader. i Hal. P. C. 44. * Book I. ch. 7. pag. 244. VOL. IV. E