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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50551	Jus regium, or, The just and solid foundations of monarchy in general and more especially of the monarchy of Scotland, maintain'd against Buchannan, Naphtali, Dolman, Milton, &c.	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing M163; ESTC R945	87,343	224

Institut de Jur. Natural § singulorum de rer divis And when the Law declares That a Supreme Prince is free from the obligation of Laws Solutus legibus which is the highest power that a Parliament can pretend to or arrive at yet Lawyers still acknowledge That this does not exclude these Supreme Powers from being liable to the Laws of God Nature and Nations Accurs in l. Princeps ff de Leg. Clementina pasturalis de re judicata Bart. in l. ut vim de justitia jure Voet. de Statutis Sect. 5. Cap. 1. Nor can the Law of Nations be overturned by private Statutes or any Supreme Power And thus all Statutes to the prejudice of Ambassadors who are secured by the Law of Nations are confess'd by all to be Null and the highest Power whatsoever cannot take off the necessity of denouncing a War before a War can be lawful And Lawyers observe very well That those who would oppose the common Dictates of Mankind should be look'd upon as Enemies to all Mankind My second Argument shall be That the King and Parliament can have no more power in Parliament than any absolute Monarch has in his own Kingdom For they are when join'd but in place of the Supreme Power sitting in judgment and therefore they cannot in Law do what any other supreme and absolute Monarch cannot do for all the Power of Parliaments consists only in their Cons●nt but we must not think that our Parliaments have an unlimited Power de jure so as that they may forfeit or kill without a cause or pass Sentence against the Subjects without citing or hearing them or that they can alienate any part of the Kingdom or subject the whole Kingdom to France or any other Foreign Prince all which deeds would be null in themselves and would not hinder the Party injur'd from a due redress For if our Parliaments had such Power we should be the greatest Slaves and live under the most arbitrary Government imaginable But so it is That no Monarch whosoever can take from any man what is due to him by the Law of God Nature and Nations For being himself inferior to these he cannot overturn their Statutes Thus a Prince cannot even ex plenitudine potestatis legitimate a Bastard in prejudice of former Children though they have only but a hope of Succession l 4. sequen de natal restituend And for the same Reason it is declared in the same Law that he cannot restore a freed man restituere libertum natalibus in prejudice of his Patron who was to succeed though that Succession was but by a municipal Law For clearing which Question it is fit to know that the Eminent Lawyers who treat Jus Publicum as Arnisaeus and others do distinguish betwixt such Kingdoms as were at first conferr'd by the People and wherein the Kings succeed by contract and in these the Laws made by King and People can exclude or bind the Successor And yet even here they confess that this proceeds not because the Predecessor can bind the Successor but because the People renew the Paction with the succeeding King But where the Successor is to succeed ex Jure Regni in hereditary Monarchies there they assert positively that the Predecessor cannot prejudge the Successor's Right of Succession which they prove by two Arguments First That the Predecessor has no more Power nor Right than the Successor for the same Right that the present King has to the Possession the next in Blood has to the Succession and all our Laws run in favour of the King and his Heirs and no man can try his Equal or give him the Law Par in parem non habet dominium The second is That it were unjust and unequitable that the Predecessor should rob his Successor Nulla ergo says Arnisaeus Cap. 7. Num. 5. clausula Successori jus auferri potest modo succedat ille ex jure regni And Hottoman lib. 2. de Regno Galliae asserts that in France which is a very absolute Monarchy Ea quae jure Regio primogenito competunt ne Testamento quidem patris adimi possunt And thus when the King of France design'd to break the Salique Law of Succession as in the Reign of Charles V. it was found impracticable by the Three Estates And when Pyrrhus was to prefer his youngest Son to the Crown the Epirots following the Law of Nations and their own refus'd him Paus lib. 1. In the year 1649 also Amurat the Grand Seignior having left the Turkish Empire to Han the Tartarian passing by his Brother Ibrahim the whole Officers of that State did unanimously cancel that Testament and restore Ibrahim the true Heir though a silly Fool Which shews the Opinion not only of Lawyers but of whole Nations and Parliaments Thus Vander Graaff an Hollander confesses That it is not lawful to chuse any of his Sons to succeed him in which the general quiet of the Kingdom is much concerned and therefore though the next Heir were wiser braver and more generally beloved yet the more immediate must be received as chosen by God whether good or bad and as honoured with his Character And if Kings could have inverted their Succession and chosen their own Successor Saint Lewis had preferr'd his own third Son to Lewis his eldest And Alfonsus King of Leon in Spain had preferr'd his Daughters to Ferdinand his eldest Son And Edward VI. of England had preferr'd and did actually prefer the Lady Jane Gray to his Sisters Mary and Elizabeth And if Successions especially of such great importance had not been fixed by immutable Laws of God and Nature the various and unconstant inclinations of the present Governors especially when shaken by the importunity of Stepmothers and Mothers or clouded by the jealousie of Flatterers or Favourites had made the Nations whom they governed very unhappy and therefore God did very justly and wisely settle this Succession that both King and People might know That it is by him that Kings Reign and Kingdoms are secured in Peace against Faction And it were strange that this should not hold in Kings since even amongst Subjects the Honour and Nobility that is bestow'd upon a Man and his Heirs does so necessarily descend upon those Heirs that the Father or Predecessor cannot exclude the next Successor or derogate from his Right either by renouncing resigning following base or mean Trades or any other For say those Lawyers since he derives this Right from his old Progenitors and owes it not to his Father his Fathers deed should not prejudge him therein Fab. Cod. 9. Tit. 28. Def. 1. Warnee Consil 20. Num. 7. And as yet the Estates of Parliament in both Nations have no Legislative Power otherwise than by assenting to what the King does so that if the King cannot himself make a Successor neither can they by consenting and all that their consent could imply would only be that they and their Successors should not oppose his Nomination because of