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““Roger Twysden—a mid-seventeenth-century commentator—observed, “This maxim, that the king cannot alone alter the law” is “the basis or ground of all the liberty and franchise of the subject.” The alternative seemed dire: “I cannot imagine how the subject can have any thing sure and lasting in any government where that power only depends on the monarch’s will.””

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