of Men, holding them for NOUGHT and voyde that are incertaine; how much more then doth THE LAW REQUIRE CERTAINTY in her own Acts, which are to bind all Men?” The Liberty of the Subject against the pretended Power of Impositions, by Wm Hakewil, 1461.
I have been the more particular (as well here as upon Orurke's cafe before-mentioned) in expressing the necessity of restraining the Power of Parliament within the bounds of Reason, Justice, and natural Equity, because, I find, it is too common an error that an Act of Parliament is omnipotent, and that whatever is ordained by Parliament must be Law, without any exception of Right or Wrong, White or Black, Truth or Falsehood! which, God be thanked, is very far from being true, though the learned Commentator, Judge Blackstone, upon the very same point, (
