Here we have what should be the chief care of monarchs who aspire to govern rightly, and equally it should concern the subjects who are to be chosen for deputies in the Cortes now that, through the absence in captivity of our sovereign, all civil and temporal authority has vested in that body, as it unquestionably has. 


Although monarchs inherit the scepter from their ancestors, it is well known that in the beginning the nation placed it in their hands. By those proclaiming themselves to be absolute rulers, the kingdom was made the patrimony of their successors, but at first it was not so. The earliest kings owed their rank to the free consent of their vassals. Later sovereigns have come to the throne by birth, but anciently popular suffrage was what adjudged them this right and prerogative. 


To put the idea in few words, since the primary source of their authority sprang from us, kings ought only to exercise their authority for our benefit. And equally, when our lawful sovereign is unable to exercise it, the delegated sovereignty reverts to the people of the entire nation who now are re-depositing it with various individuals of their choice who are styled deputies. May the Cortes now being elected know how to shower blessings on the Spanish dominions in both hemispheres and rule them in righteousness!





References: 
Gems of Philippine oratory; selections representing fourteen centuries of Philippine thought, carefully compiled from credible sources in substitution for the pre-Spanish writings destroyed by missionary zeal, to supplement the later literature stunted by intolerant religious and political censorship, and as specimens of the untrammeled present-day utterances
by Austin Craig, page 24-25, University of Manila, 1924.

Even Kings only rule by their people's permission