The power to make them void.[5]
“By them, the Magna Charta,
And all our Saxon rights;
By claims of nature, mind, descent,
We ought to send to Parliament[7]
And show it what it slights.”
A protest then we sent it.[7]
But back came sail on sail;[8]
And less had leaves of law-books grave
Torn out and flung to wind and wave