Note 108 — Chapter IX
Max Farrand translation
"The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the Parliament ... all that ever the people of Rome might do, either in centuriatis comitiis or tributis, the same may be done by the Parliament of England, which representeth and hath the power of the whole realm, both the head and the body." The Commonwealth of England, 1589, Book II, reprinted in Prothero, Select Statutes and Documents of Elizabeth and James I., Oxford, 1894, p. 178.