_True._ If it be so, how comes it that the House of _Commons_ even in their most Popular seasons, have still own'd the Crown of _England_ to be _Imperial_? How comes it that all our _Laws_ are call'd the _Kings Laws_: all our _Courts of Justice_ his _Majesties Courts_, and all _Publick Causes_ try'd in the _Kings Name_, and by the _Authority_ of his _Majesty_? _Citt._ But have not the _Two Houses_ their share in the _Legislative Power_? It is the sanction makes the Law, not the Consent. _True._ You must distinguish betwixt the _Consent_, and the _Sanction_; the _Preparatory_ Part is _Their's_, the _Stamp_ is the _Kings_: The Two _Houses_ Consent to a _Bill_; It is only a _Bill_, when it is _presented_, and it remains yet a _Bill_, even when the King has _Consented_ to it; and in this _Common Consent_, in Order to a _Law_, the _Two Houses_ may be said to _share_ with his _Majesty_: But then the _Fiat_, that superinduces an _Authority_, and is _Only_, and _Properly_ the Act of _Legislation_, is _singly_ in the _King_. So that though they _share_ in the _Consent_, they have no pretence at all to the _Sanction_: which is an Act of _Authority_; the other but of _Agreement_. The Inconveniences of a Coordination supposed. And yet again, admitting your _Coordination_; First, every King runs the hazzard of his Crown upon every Parliament he calls: For _That Third Estate_ lies at the Mercy of the _Other Two_: And further, 'tis a kinde of Ringing the Changes with the Government, the _King_ and _Lords_ shall be Uppermost _One day_, the _King_ and _Commons_, _Another_, and the _Lords_ and _Commons_, the _Third_: For in this Scale of Constitution whatsoever the _One_ will _not_, the _Other Two_, _may_. _Citt._ Well, but Ours is a MIXT Government, and we are a _Free People_. Of a mixt Government and a Qualify'd. _True._ If ours be a _Mixt Government_, so as to any _Popular Participation_ of _Power_ with the _King_, then it is not a _Monarchy_: (which is the _Government Only_ of _One_) but if you'l call it a _Qualifi'd Government_; so as to distinguish it from an _Absolute_ and _Unlimited Government_, I'le agree with you. But let the _Government_ be _what_ it will, and _where_ it will, let it do _Right_ or _Wrong_, it is _Equally Unaccountable_, for there lies no _Appeal_, but to a _Superiour_, and the _Supreme_ has _none_ but _God Himself_. _Citt._ But if we be a _Free People_, have not _We_ as much _Right_ to _Our Liberties_, as the _King_ has to _his Crown_? _True._ Yes, we have, but the King has this Advantage of us, that _We_ may _Forfeit_ our _Liberties_ but _He_ cannot forfeit his _Crown_. _Citt._ What if a _King_ will Transgresse all the Laws of _God_ and _Man_? may not the _People_ resume their _Trust_? Power is from God, not from the People. Soveraignty of the People most ridiculous.