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" The total government, is not upon a king, he has counsellors, a Parliament, or Estates, in the land, who share in the burthen of Government. No king should have the sole government... There is no man alone able to govern all. The kingdom should not lay that burthen on one poor man, who may easily miscarry. The Estates of this Land, are bound in this Covenant, the bear the burthen with him. "

, The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles the Second, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, as it was acted and done at Schoone, the 1st of January 1651


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 quote : The total government, is not upon a king, he has counsellors, a Parliament, or Estates, in the land, who share in the burthen of Government. No king should have the sole government... There is no man alone able to govern all. The kingdom should not lay that burthen on one poor man, who may easily miscarry. The Estates of this Land, are bound in this Covenant, the bear the burthen with him.