The Houſe of Commons is indeed diſſoluble by the King, as the nation has of late been very clamorouſly told; but while it ſubſiſts it is co-ordinate with the other powers, and this co-ordination ceaſes only when the Houſe by diſſolution ceaſes to ſubſiſt.
As the particular repreſentatives of the people are in their public character above the control of the courts of law, they muſt be ſubject to the juriſdiction of the Houſe, and as the Houſe, in the exerciſe of its authority, can be neither directed nor reſtrained, its own reſolutions muſt be its laws, at leaſt, if there is no antecedent deciſion of the whole legiſlature.
This privilege, not confirmed by any written law or poſitive compact, but by the reſiſtleſs power of political neceſſity, they have exerciſed, probably from their firſt inſtitution, but certainly, as their re-
