Excerpt from A Defence of the View of the English Constitution: With Respect to the Sovereign Authority of the Prince, and the Allegiance of the Subject; By Way of Reply to the Several Answers That Have Been Made to It Queen, but fiands, at this day in the rstatute Book, a Law of this Realm Are all Matters of Faet. Now there is but one way to anfwer Matters of Faet, which is to deny them. And tho' thefe Authors have attempted this in an infiance or two, yet they have done it (0 faintly and unfuccefsfully, and the Evidence againli them is to clear and full 5 that inf'tead of roundly denying thele Facts, they have had te Couffe to the Salvo: offub falzon'e jurir, and the Prefimpti've C'onjimt, 8m. With which (tho' they have nor the leal't Anthoriry for either from our Lawyers or Lawbooks) they think to turn ofithe force ofwhat has been urged both from the Common Laws and the Statute Book. But this is not anfwering, but evading, 'tis fetting up their private Opinions againlt Fact and Law, or laying the Laws alide, and fetting an hypothefis in their Place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.