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was held to be in the people who pre-
scribed both the laws and limits to
their kings, and held them to a rigid
public account for the least otfense
against the laws.
Diodorus Siculus, who tells us that
the first Egyptian kings lived not like
some other monarchs, TO rule accord
ing to their wills, ,as obnoxious to no cen
sures, but all their public and daily life
must conform to the laws regulating
their. diet, clothes, recreations dovo-
tons, &c.
In MINISTER'S cosmography we learn
that Pharmond, the first king of
France, was elected by the unanimous
vote of the people.
Cassaneus also says. the kings Of
France were in ancient times, inferior
to their kingdoms and parliaments,and
subject to their censures even to being
deposed and executed for breach OF
the laws.
The same testimony given in Bodin's
Commonwealth, shows that in an
cient times the kings of the cities Of
the Gauls were subject to their estates,
or the people whom Caesar for this
cause calls Reguli (littlc kings), being
themselves subjects and ameanable to
the people who had all the sovereign
ty, causing their kings even to be put
to death whenever they deserved it,
We have theassurance of the learned
Jacobus Valdecius, who wrote in 1902,
that the same things were true of the
ancient kings of Spain, some of whom
were deposed, others put to death
but all subject to the obligations and
laws imposed by the people.
Johanis Mariana, another learned
author, in work printed in 1899 9says
the whole kingdom, state and people
in every lawful kingdom, and in Spain
itself, are of greater power and au-
thority than the king, declaring that
because all royal power that is lawful
has its origin from thepeoplc by whose
grant the first kings in every king
dom were placed in their royal au-
thority.
So Pstorius, in his "Ancient Histo-
ry of Spain, says: "Among the laws
of the Visgoths, ! find not only an
act declaring their kings to be subject
to their laws, but likewise law re-
straining kings excesscs, annulling all
unjust judgments, &c. All of which
prove the whole state or people among
the Spanish Goths to be above their
kings who are liable to the laws, and
to be deposed for their vicious lives or
maladministration."
Prime, in his Sovereign Power of
Parliament, says that all of the an
cient kings of the Goths in Spain CON
fess that they received the kingdom
from the people, revocable by the
people, and that the people might de-
pose them as often as they pleased,
having only given them limited del
egated power. This learned author,
who published his work in l643, un-
derstood the necessary quality of dele
gated power, that IL can be revoked
by the party or parties granting it,
whenever the objects for which it was
delegated are disregarded by otherpar-
ties to the compact "a compact"
says Daniel Webster, "broken in one
part is broken in ALL The principles
of law and Justice violated by the
wagers Of the Abolition war, were
acknowledged by all the most eminent
lawyers and writers on governments
of the last two centuries they will be
acknowledged by oil eminent writer's
for centuries to come, and the leaders
of the faction now in power will there
fore pass into history as the most
abandoned criminals, because the
greatest tyrants Of history. To say
that delegated power may not be re.
voked by the party delegating it, is to
contradict the common sense of man.
kind. And the delegators of power
have always been held as retaining the
right to judge for themselves when it
is necessary to revoke that power.
We read IN the history Of Hungary,
written by Ruspah, and published in
1884, that the kings of Hungary are
merely elected by the states and
senators in their parliamcnts or
assembly of the estates and peo-
pie, without whom they can neither
make laws, impose taxes, levy war
nor conclude peace the grand offices
of the realm-the great palation OF
lIungary-who has the chief command
both in peace and war, power to judge
the king himself, is elected only in
and by their parliaments which are OF
the people. OF these people Prime
says, Peter, king of Hungary, grow.
ing very insolent, tyrannioal, &c, in the
third year of his reign, the people all
combined and deposed and banishcd
him from the realm and elected Alba
in his place, who was worse than Pc.
ter, was slain in the third year OF his
reign and Peter again restored to the
crown, who persisting in his former
sacriligc, tyranny and cruelty, was in
the third year after his restora-
ton, taken by the people and his eyes
put out ana cast INTO prison where he
dled, such was the sovereign power
oil thepeople oi hungary, even as lar
Dac Dack AZ lo4o' FOR period OF over
5oo years hungary had very few
Kings that were allowed to die natu-
raj doath, Tor crimes not one-tenth as
outrageous as those oi Grant and
sheridan: Ihey thought no more OF
aespatcning aKngin hungary than we
DO OF killing a rattle-snake.
In ancient Poland the kings were
held TO be only the servants Of the
people, and were required to take an
oath to faithfully grant to every man
his right and reign according to law
The oath taken by Stephen, king Of
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