§. 141. Fourthly. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to
any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who
have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of
the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in
whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, "We will submit,
and be governed by laws made by such men, and in such forms," nobody else
can say other men shall make laws for them; nor can they be bound by any laws
but such as are enacted by those whom they have chosen and authorised to make
laws for them.