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Show E28] E 29 it ripohrive convention, do they not come within the ‘defcription of the perfons given to change." It is not to he denied that this may be the cafe, and fome. times has been. It is befides an undoubted truth, that fhc rights and [fire/"liar of the people are as real, and maintained by the fword the poil‘ellion they had once obtained, after the time in which they had any [algal authority was expired; and were at lnfi ignominioufly expelled by a new ufurper, a creature of their as valuable, and ought to be held as lltcred, a path own; thus receiving in thenyQ'lver that recompvzce Vihen Char/c3 I. attempted to govern without a parliament, and to irnpofe taxes on the people by his oftheir error which war meet. They eminently evinced the danger and the mud: nefs ofdet'lroying a good conflitution, in the deluriv: hope of erec'ting, what fome of them no doubt fanci- .mvn authority alone, he doubtlefs, and all thofe who ed, a better, in its ilead adrifed and abetted fuch meafures, were to he ran1rod r, Wit ' h the 7 m tha 7 t are gr' ow to chzmge. Nay, how-t ilretches of prerogative had been healed, the public grieVances redreiietl, fufhcient fecurity of the rights of the conilitution, as the powers and ‘rxn'rcgtzfim (f the irragrflrzrre. 5 )1. - 1 elite. unufuar tne application may be, it was properly ‘y }r wh 1,0 x> o did ( not ftrbrm V I t to \Vfl 1 "at Pau ' i :§t€$ i l (lt:llt')2lt:11 )7 '11 V ' 1e orduza ncerof‘Go d, the fewer: that he. 'I he king ‘ ‘ l' " .' . ' ‘ cpnihtutes an eiientra i~ , l branch oftrre lt‘aillllil‘ WE‘ but I C L \ , as the executive, from the nature t1 ‘f' ,1 the thin"r is . JOtL ..1'rlnatC to ‘ ' [Lrl i l tho i ii, his legrilatr ; Y ve, he, bix oli . ‘ nnin'r in ' ‘ 0 r) 1' _ l [on general topic of the right: of the trmgz'flmz‘c, and the dirty @[thufzzhjsfi let us now one, '1‘": a, little givhich The liouic 0I cor f nmon , s ofthe long parlia ' ment, quickly flroiwcdr ‘ ‘ ~ 3 t w) .]c ame prt npcrlfity to ufurpatro n and dcfpv‘ric power ney uturpcd the authority or the crown In‘ of thci j > r ‘. 1 r was the fCCOliil thing I proprfed to do) into the :nz‘rifir l . H‘ 4'; ' a v ~/il I ) Lt t} . ch conl'trtue' PCcre,f botn whi out nrcrnoL ors or" me ' flare 5 trm 1'3V 1, re'tieJ: i, tilting the~ who . le btrfinefs 0"‘ lMi‘l' t‘L; 11‘- on t'licnrfi'lres.. of the corth/Z wherein we are at this time unhapyfily ' tr. the heoblc ' . former parliaments, not knowing where to flop, per BUT defcending from former times and from the natty beluilly feud to have originated with the crown, Lfcannot be aflrrmed that it ended there. {anguire expefiation, and beyond the example of all ‘ ‘ But tho' the ufu"}‘"* i011 AL, crown and the houfe of lords, and intoxicated with the power they had acquired, beyond their moli in blood, murdered the king, and overfet the con- flitution. n rrrprd what did not belong to him, and thereby . ' \> of commons, obferving their afcendency over the filled in their violence, till they involved the nation 011m perion the authority of the \rhol‘ lcqiil-t ture, - and privileges of all orders obtained, when the hour}: l With us poherres the Whole executive power and 7 ' oppofed Gods ordina nce. The wounds given by the it icy Tl " ufurped lrli ' cwi'il i theL Vb" 'irr' d ~ ‘0 l PA] w ' Lhu "' ‘uated for a. inn t. it) - ctr" t'_.rtir h cI bonr 7y,' tbthe," 'O Cogaged with our revolted brethren in vs‘tmerrca. The examination of this quei‘rion will lead 0 the dit‘cufiion of fonte noints, which, tho' ail'esfting the general nature and foundations of government, could not: 03- - |