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Such laws could not be perpetual unless the state dies, ever perpetual: so is expected so to be? To sure it might not one of these laws be repealed?

L\T dT\ Cole was for making holding for void every Act contrary to Magna Charta: if so, every act would br void that imposed law[?] taxes

Perpetuity seeking Contracts and bouregousies[?] as reprobasted[?] by lawyers.

Of a law the aim of which were to tie up for every the hands of future legislators, a lawyer if any one there were whose purpose happened to be thwarted by it would say it were void.

From every man who to a grain of honesty adds a grain of discernment far for ever /on this occasion as on every other/ be such language.

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Applied to the acts of legislature means consisting in the use of such language are too bad to be applied to any the best end: nor in the present instance would the end b served by it.

When a Judge says such or such a law is void, what he means is I will not on my part do any thing towards the execution of it: my decisions my operations afar and notwithstanding the law will be such as they would have been had no such law been made.

But on /by/ the present occasion /case/, there is not room for the /any/ exercise of power by link[?] hands person whose operations are in question is not the Judge, but the Legislator: whether a law repugnant to the letter of any such perteutity seeking law