...every perform, in d^ This Icgi/lative is not only the fupreme power of the common-wealth, but facred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it; nor can any edict of any body elfe, in what form foever conceived, or by what power foever backed, have the force and obligation...

...legiflative is not only the fupreme * Locke, ubi fupra. 1> power power of the commonwealth, but facrcd ancl unalterable in the hands, where the community have once placed it ; nor can any edidl; of any body elfe, in what form foever conceived, or by what power foever backed, have the force...

...fupreme power for the prefer, of tne commonwealth, but facred and unalvjtton of the 10eietr. terable in the hands where the community have once placed it ; nor can any edi£t of any body elfe, in what form foever conceived, or by what power foever backed, have the force...

...oil Government. ' « body •' body elfe, in what form foever conceived, or by what " power foever backed, have the force and obligation of " a law, which has not its fancYion from that Legislative " which the public haschofen and appointed." And again, " The Legiflative...

...and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it; nor can any edict of any body else, in what form soever conceived, or by what power...obligation of a law, which has not its sanction from that legislative which the public has chosen and appointed : for without this the law could not have that,...

...it. This legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, hut sacred and unalterahle in the hands where the community have once placed it ; nor can any edict of any hody else, in what form soever conceived, or hy what power soever hacked, have the force and ohligation...

...express, ' that the legislature is the supreme pow,er of the commonwealth, and that no edict of any body else, in what form soever conceived, or by what power soever backed, can have the force and obligation of a law, which has not its sanction from that legislature which...

...and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it: nor can any edict of any body else, in what form soever conceived, or by what power...soever backed, have the force and obligation of a /air, which has not its sanction from that legislative which the public has chosen and appointed :...

...delegate it to one or more persons (b). And the supreme power is, in other words, the legislature, sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it, without which no law can exist, and in which all obedience terminates. Yet this legislative authority...

...Government, Ch. xiii. See also Ch. xi. "This legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the...obligation of a law, which has not its sanction from that legislative which the public has chosen and appointed ; for without this the law could not have that...