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8192. STUART (House of), Crimes.—

The treasonable crimes [of the Stuarts] against
their people brought on them the exertion of
those sacred and sovereign rights of punishment,
reserved in the hands of the people for
cases of extreme necessity, and judged by the
constitution unsafe to be delegated to any other
judicature.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 127. Ford ed., i, 431.
(1774)