"The Parliament of England...is that whereupon the very essence of all Government within this Kingdom doth depend; it is even the body of the whole Realm; it consisteth of the King, and of all that within the Land are subject unto him."
— England

January 1, 1970

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Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book VIII, quoted in The Works of that learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclasiastical Polity (1682), p. 458