A92147:547
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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QUEST. XXIII. Whither the King hath any Royal prerogative, or a power to dispense with Laws? And some other-grounds against absolute Monarchy.
QUEST. XXIII. Whother the King hath any Royall prerogative, or a power to dispence with Lawes? And some other-grounds against absolute Monarchie.
A Prerogative Royal, I take two ways: 1. Either to be an act1 of mere will and pleasure, above, or beside Reason or Law: Or, an act▪ of dispensation, beside, or against the letter of the Law.
A Prerogative Royall, I take two wayes: 1. Either to be an act1 of meere will and pleasure, above, or beside Reason or Law: Or, an act▪ of dispensation, beside, or against the letter of the Law.
- 1Prerogative taken two ways.Prerogative taken two wayes.
Assert. 1. That which Royalists call the Prerogative Royal of Princes, is the salt of Absolute Power; and it is a supreme and highest power of a King, as a King, to do above, without, or contrary to a Law, or Reason: which is unreasonable.