British Parliament
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The legislature of Great Britain, whose historical claim of supremacy over the American colonies is used as a cautionary analogy for the federal court's claimed supremacy over the states.
Supremacy was the literal claim of the British parliament over the colonies;
The case is analogous in all its aspects to the claim of the British parliament, neither bound by an oath, nor elected, nor paid, nor removable by the people of the colonies, over the legislatures of these colonies;
Both in theory and practice, it would approach near to that detestable virtual representation, under which the British parliament claimed a power of local and internal legislation over the colonies.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The parliamentary institution described as the parent of elective legislatures across the western world.
The royal judicial authority was once the most valuable and indeed the most indispensable of all reforming agencies, but at length its course was run, and in nearly all civilised societies its inheritance has devolved upon elective legislatures, themselves everywhere in the western world the children of the British Parliament.