144 CASE OF THE POST-NATI OF SCOTLAND. 



&quot; quoad/ and &quot; quatenus,&quot; and such subtilties and 

 distinctions. To maintain therefore our assertion, I 

 will use three kinds of proof. 



The first is, that allegiance cannot be applied to 

 the law or kingdom, but to the person of the king, 

 because the allegiance of the subject is more large 

 and spacious, and hath a greater latitude and com 

 prehension than the law or the kingdom. And there 

 fore it cannot be a dependency of that without the 

 which it may of itself subsist. 



The second proof which I will use is, that the 

 natural body of the king hath an operation and in 

 fluence upon his body politic, as well as his body 

 politic hath upon his body natural ; and therefore 

 that although his body politic of king of England, 

 and his body politic of king of Scotland, be several 

 and distinct, yet nevertheless his natural person, 

 which is one, hath an operation upon both, and 

 createth a privity between them. 



And the third proof is the binding text of five 

 several statutes. 



For the first of these, I shall make it manifest, 

 that the allegiance is of a greater extent and dimen 

 sion than laws or kingdom, and cannot consist by the 

 laws merely ; because it began before laws, it con- 

 tinueth after laws, and it is in vigour where laws are 

 suspended and have not their force. That it is 

 more ancient than law, appeareth by that which was 

 spoken in the beginning by way of inducement, 

 where I did endeavour to demonstrate, that the ori 

 ginal age of kingdoms was governed by natural 



