"Since the establishment however of the British constitution at the glorious Revolution on it’s free and ancient principles, neither his majesty nor his ancestors have exercised such a power of dissolution in the island of Great Britain; and when his majesty was petitioned by the united voice of his people there to dissolve the present parliament, who had become obnoxious to them, his ministers were heard to declare in open parliament that his majesty possessed no such power by the constitution..."
- Thomas Jefferson, in A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774 - text online here)
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