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.

The Works of John Locke, Esq; in Three Volumes: The Contents of which Follow in the Next Leaf (ed. 1714)