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not again be in danger of being subverted; upon which letters elections
have been accordingly made.
And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
pursuant to their respective letters and elections, being now assembled
in a full and free representation of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in
the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done), for the
vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare:—
(1.) That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution
of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal.
(2.) That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath assumed and exercised of late,
is illegal.
(3.) That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners
for Ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
(4.) That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of
prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other
manner t