Quote#Politics & Power
The Parliament of England...is that whereupon the very essence of all…
Quote byRichard Hooker · 1554–1600
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book VIII, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker (That Learned and Judicious Divine) in Eight Books of Ecclasiastical Polity (London: Thomas Newcombe for Andrew Crook, 1666), p. 470.
English (original)
The Parliament of England...is that whereupon the very essence of all Government within this Kingdom doth depend; it is even the body of the whole Realm; it consisteth of the King, and of all that within the Land are subject unto him.
— Richard Hooker
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