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or remove the limits here laid down: nothing less than the same accumulated Authority, by which the Charter is now established, can possibly set it aside, or any part of it, according to the Maxim before recited, “eodem modo quo quid constituitur, eodem modo dissolvitur:” for no single Act of Parliament “eodem modo constituitur,” is ordained in the same manner. The many repeated confirmations of its authority were a work of ages; so that the said authority cannot legally be set aside, unless it be done eodem modo quo constituitur, that is, by the repeated suffrages of as many Parliaments against it as have already expressly confirmed it; and God forbid that any such gross depravity and corruption should ever obtain such a continuance in this kingdom, as to accomplish so great an evil; for that could not be without a total national reprobacy, dangerous to us, not only in this world, but also in the next!