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ial revenues, reported a bill to overrule charters, and to make all orders by the king, or under his authority, the highest law of America. Such a coalition of power seemed in harmony with that legislative supremacy, which was esteemed the great whig doctrine of the revolution of 1683; it also had the semblance of an earlier precedent. In the reign of Henry the Eighth, parliament sanctioned what a king, by his royal power, might do, 31 Hen. VIII. c. VIII. Compare 1 Ed. VI., c. XII., Hallam's Constitutional Hist. of England, i. 47, 48, 50. and gave the energy of law to his proclamations and ordinances. In this it did but surrender the liberties of its own constituents: Halifax and his board invited the British parliament to sequester the liberties of other communities, and transfer them to the British crown. The people of Connecticut, Journal of Commons, XXV. 793. through their agent, Eliakim Palmer, protested against the unusual and extraordinary attempt, so repugnant