The king's prerogatives are the sunbeams of the crown, and as inseparable from it as the sunbeams from the sun.

The king's crown must be taken from him; Samson's hair must be cut off, before his courage can be any jot abated.

Hence it is that neither the king's act, nor any act of parliament, can give away his prerogative."] [Footnote 5: NOTE E, p.121.We shall here make use of the liberty allowed in a note to expatiate a little on the present subject.

It must be confessed, that the king in this declaration touched upon that circumstance in the English constitution which it is most difficult, or rather altogether impossible, to regulate by laws, and which must be governed by certain delicate ideas of propriety and decency, rather than by any exact rule or prescription.

To deny the parliament all right of remonstrating against what they esteem grievances, were to reduce that assembly to a total insignificancy, and to deprive the people of every advantage which they could reap from popular councils.