Similarly, it is admitted that the body which invited Charles II.

to return and resume his authority was equally destitute of the validity which could only be given by a royal summons.

Yet both these bodies had performed actions of greater importance than that which was looked for from this Parliament.
The one had abolished the existing and usurping government, and restored to his kingdom a King who had been long an exile.

The other had, as it were, passed sentence on the existing sovereign, on grounds which confessedly will not bear a strict examination, and had conferred the crown on a prince who had no hereditary claim to the title.

The justification of both acts was necessity.