The other complicated and artificial additions were the successive invention of sovereigns and legislators; or, if they were obtruded on the prince by seditious subjects, their origin must appear, on that very account, still more precarious and unfavorable.

In England, the authority of the king, in all the exterior forms of government, and in the common style of law, appears totally absolute and sovereign; nor does the real spirit of the constitution, as it has ever discovered itself in practice, fall much short of these appearances.

The parliament is created by his will; by his will it is dissolved.

It is his will alone, though at the desire of both houses, which gives authority to laws.

To all foreign nations, the majesty of the monarch seems to merit sole attention and regard.