§. 150. In all cases whilst the government subsists, the legislative is the
supreme power. For what can give laws to another must needs be superior to him,
and since the legislative is no otherwise legislative of the society but by the
right it has to make laws for all the parts, and every member of the society
prescribing rules to their actions, they are transgressed, the legislative must
needs be the supreme, and all other powers in any members or parts of the
society derived from and subordinate to it.