Dialogue Concerning the Rights of the Crown of Scotland
Dialogue Concerning the Rights of the Crown of Scotland
Buchanan George
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j the interpretation of ' \ deal, :" V ' circu S tO ! yi'tancc :e klivj you w w ... 123 rbn. When you grant to the king the interpretation of the law, you allow him the power of making the law fpeak, nut what the legislator intends, or what is for the general good of the community, but what is for the advantage of the interpreter, and. For his own intered, of fquaring all proceedings by it as b\ an unerring rule. Appius Claudius had in his decern virate enacted a very equitable law, " 1 hat in ...a litigation concerning freedom the claim r - - or freedom ihould be favoured. " What language could be clearer? But the very author of this law, by his interpretation, made it uielefs. You lee, I prefume, how much you contribute in one line to the licentioulhefs of your king, by enabling him to make the law utter what he wilhes, and not utter what he does not wifh. If this doctrine be once admitted, it will avail nothing to pafs good laws to remind a good king of his dutv, and to confine a bad one within due bounds.
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