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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27361	A iustification of The city remonstrance and its vindication, or, An answer to a book written by Mr. J.P. entituled, The city remonstrance remonstrated wherein the frequent falsifyings of the said Mr. J.P. are discovered, the many charges by him laid upon the remonstrance and its vindicator, disproved, and the parity and agreement of the remonstrance ... with the propositions, declarations, remonstrances, and votes, of both or either House of Parliament manifested / by John Bellamie.	Bellamie, John, d. 1654.; Price, John, Citizen of London. City remonstrance remonstrated.	1646 (1646)	Wing B1814; ESTC R4476	42,384	58

transcribe my very words where I told you that by the three Estates I meant as all the Laws and Records of the Kingdome expresse it and as all men unquestionably have hitherto concluded it and as the truth in it selfe is the King the Lords and the Commons Your second Querie is What I meane by Fundamentall and then you tell the Reader that I say the King the Lords and Commons are the three Estates of which the Fundamentall constitution of the Kingdome is made up It 's true I did and doe say so still and you say little to contradict it onely you aske another question which how wise a one it is I desire the Reader to observe for I must not judge viz. are there three Fundamentalls and you propose it as if I had said or imply'd so much and then you tell the Reader you ever thought there had been but one and in this I agree with you but herein is our difference which you and I must leave to the judgement of the reader to determine I say this one Fundamental constitution of the Kingd●m is the three Estates of the King Lords and Commons and this I still abide by but you say this one Fundamentall is the Commons and that for two Reasons 1. Bec●use the Commons made the King and the King made the Lords and so the Commons are the prime ●ound●tion 2. B●cause both the King and the Lords were adv●nced for the benefit quiet and welfare of the Commons and not the Commons made for them And you say if you are deceived the common Maxime of Salus populi suprema Lex deceived you Answ. First the frame of the Government of this Kingdome by the admired wisdom of the Architects and Contrivers thereof is so composed of these three Estates as may best preserve the whole and keep either of those Estates from any such exorbitancy as might destroy the other for as they are the three Estates in Parliament I humbly conc●ive there is no subordination of the one to the other but a co-ordination of them all three together by which the Princes Soveraignty and the peoples freedome and liberty are together preserved and maintained and herein is that common Maxime of Salus populi suprema Lex chiefly made good Secondly the legislative Power of this Kingdom is not in any one Estate distinct but in al the three Estates conjunct yea the very root and essence of this Legislative Power is compounded and as it were mixed together in the three Estates of King Lords and Commons and these three concurrent Estates producing one supreme Act as con-con-Cause ca●not have a subordination among themselves it not being imaginable how a power can cause the supreme effect and yet be subordinate thus the very being of our Common and Statute Lawes prove this truth for they are not composed nor enacted by any one of the three Estates divisim but they are established by the sole authority of the three Estates conjunctin every act being enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and by the authority of the Lords and C●mmons assembled in Parliament Thirdly I must needs dissent from you in that you say that both the King and the Lords were advanced for the bene●●t quiet and welfare of the Commons if your meaning bee as indeed by your words it seems to be exclusive excluding therein the benefit quiet and welfare of the King and the Lords for I conceive the benefi● quiet and welfare of the whole viz. King Lords and Comm●ns was equally and alike intended in the Fundamentall constitution of the Kingdom and so the Commons were as well made for the King as the King for the Commons yea the King and the Lords and the Commons were all alike made for the benefit quiet and welfare each of others and so of the whole together and this is that which in my minde maketh the Constitution of this Kingdome in this state of a limited and mixed Monarchy farre to surpasse the Constitution of any other Kingdome that I know and I think that in a good sense it may truly bee said of the severall members of this thus constituted Po●itique body of this Kingdome as the Apostle 1 Cor. 12. 21. speakes of the members of the naturall body the eye c●nnot s●y to the b●nd I have no need of thee nor again the ●ead to the feet I have no need of you for as every member in the naturall body is by God there set and placed not alone for its owne good but for the welfare of the whole and accordingly it acts and is serviceable therein for the good of the whole yea such a naturall necessity there is in the body of every member that not any one member can be wanting but the body is thereby defective and so the eye cannot say to the ●and I have no need of thee nor againe the head to the feet I h●v● no need of you So in the body Politique of this Common-wealth by the ancient and excellent Constitution thereof the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons are so set and placed that in their severall stations they should not act alone for their owne particular but for the Common and Publike good and welfare of the whole yea I humbly conceive that to the upholding continuance of this so excellent a Constitution there is such a Politique necessity of every one of the three Estates in this Commonwealth for the preservation of the whole that the King cannot say to the Commons I have no need of you nor againe the Commons to the King I have no need of thee nor yet the King and the Commons to the Lords we have no need of you For if any one Estate in this b●dy Politique be cut off the whole constitution is presently destroyed and when I seriously consider how by the Fundamentall Constitution of this Kingdom there is such care taken for the preservation of the Soveraignty of the King and yet withall such provision made for the just Liberties and freedome of the people and how the one may be justly allayed and yet consist without impeachment of the other I cannot but conceive it to be unparalleld for true policy in the whole world and thus much in answer to your two first Q●eries Your third Querie is whether the King and suppose the major part of the Lord whi●h m●ke up two Estates do● agree tog●ther suppose it be to set up absolute prerogative and the Commons will not assent hereunto whether the majo● part of the Estates must not conclude the minor the two conclude the third and so as for the Common will they nill they sl●●es they must be and slaves they shall be Answ. To the making of a Law there must bee the concurrent consent of all the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons the King and the Lords without the consent of the Commons can make no Law valid and in that case the major part of the Estate● doe not