 disposed of; the Commons have the further Right of enquiring and examining into the Application of said Aids; of ordering all Accounts relative thereto to be laid before them; and of censuring the Abuse or Misapplication thereof.
The Royal Assent to all other Bills is expressed by the Terms
(Le Roy le veut) the King wills it.
But, when the Commons present their Bills of Aid, to his Majesty, it is answered,
Le Roy remercier Ses loyal Sujects et ainsi le veut, the King thanks his loyal Subjects and so willeth.
An express Acknowledgment that the Right of granting or levying Moneys, for public Purposes, lies solely, inherently, and incommunicably, in the People and their Representatives.
This capital Privilege of the Commons constitutes the grand Counterpoise to the King's principal Prerogative of making Peace or War; for, how impotent must a warlike Enterprise prove, without Money which makes the Sinews thereof! And thus the People and their Representatives still retain in their Hands the GRAND MOMENTUM of the Constitution, and of all human Affairs.
Distinguished Representatives! Happy People! immutably happy, while WORTHILY REPRESENTED.
As the Fathers of the several Families, throughout the Kingdom, nearly and tenderly comprize and represent the Persons, Cares, and Concerns, of their respective Housholds: So these adopted Fathers immediately represent, and intimately concentrate, the Persons and Concerns of their respective Constituents, and in them the collective Body or Sum of the Nation. And while these Fathers continue true to their adopting Children, a single Stone cannot lapse from the GREAT FABRIC OF THE CONSTITUTION.
The THREE ESTATES, in PARLIAMENT.
WITH the King, Lords, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, the People have deposited their
Legislative
or
absolute Power,
IN TRUST, for their whole Body; the said King, Lords, and Commons, when so assembled, being the
Great
Representative of the whole Nation, as if all the People were then convened in one general Assembly
As the Institution, Repeal, and Amendment, of Laws, together with the Redress of public Grievances and Offences, are not within the Capacity of any of the three Estates, distinct from the Others; the FREQUENT HOLDING OF PARLIAMENTS is the vital Food, without which the Constitution cannot subsist.
The three Estates originally, when assembled in Parliament, sat together consulting in the open Field. Accordingly at
Running-Mend,
five hundred Years ago, King
John
passed the great Charter (as therein is expressed) by the Advice of the Lords spiritual and temporal, by the Advice of several Commoners (by name recited)
et aliorum Fidelium,
and of Others his faithful
