...prerogative "amounts to an abrogation and utter repeal of all the laws" and that: If this be once allowed of, there will need no parliament; all the legislature will be in the king, which is a thing worth considering. The culmination was the exile of James II and the passage under...

...regardless of the menaces of his superiors on the bench, laid it down as a maxim, that, " if such a dispensing power be allowed, there will need no parliament; all the legislature, will be in the king." The trial had begun at nine o'clockго the morning, and it was seven in the evening when the jury...