. And where a parliament is sovereign, if it should assemble never so many or so wise men from the countries subject to them, for whatsoever cause; yet there is no man will believe that such an assembly hath thereby acquired to themselves a legislative power. “Item” that the two arms of a commonwealth, are “force and justice; the first whereof is in the king, the other deposited in the hands of the parliament.” As if a commonwealth could consist, where the force were in any hand, which justice had not the authority to command and govern.