ABSTRACT
Apostle calls them Ministers of God; but they are Ministers and Servants of the People, and of the Laws, nevertheless for all that; the Laws and the Magistrates were both created for the good of the People[.]
e Defence of the Rights of the Representative Body of the People, understood by the Name of the Commons of England in Parliament, is a great Point; and so plain are their Rights, that ’tis no extraordinary Task to defend them: But for any Man to advance, that they are so August an Assembly that no Objection ought to be made to their Actions, nor no Refl ection upon their Conduct, though the Fact be true; and that it is not to be examin’d whether the ing said be true, but what Authority the Person speaking has to say it, is a Doctrine wholly new, and seems to be a Badge of more Slavery to our own Representative than ever the People of England owes them, or than ever they themselves expected.
