[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 5 (of 6) CHAPTER III 29/52
sacras eorum leges,... divina oracula....
Quodcumque imperator constituerit, vel cognoscens decreverit, vel edicto praeceperit, legem esse constat."-- Frederick II.: "Princeps legibus solutus est."-- Louis of Bavaria: "Nos qui sumus supra jus."] [Footnote 2314: Guyot, ibid., article Regales.
"The great 'regales,' majora regalia, are those which belong to the King, jure singulari et proprio, and which are incommunicable to another, considering that they cannot be divorced from the scepter, being the attributes of sovereignty, such as...
the making of laws, the interpretation or change of these, the last appeal from the decisions of magistrates, the creation of offices, the declaration of war or of peace,...
the coining of money, the augmentation of titles or of values, the imposition of taxes on the subjects,...
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