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Show 60 Acrs RELATING Part I, This {idea of can/mt has been much in- Sec}. III. To THE Commas. 6‘! " what is intituled to a vote in fome place: right to {late their opinions in their own " or other in the kingdom *." That we may not however fuppofe that words. the confent of our reprefentative depends lifted on by lawyers. It'may therefore be i A It would be tedious to cite them all. Upon our own perfonal confent, the learn~ Let us then content ourfelves with the words of a learned leader of them, who is ed commentator reminds us (ofwhat is molt certainly true) that " the reprefen- himfelf a hell. 4 " No {ubjeé'r of England (lays he *) can " tative, once cholen, is not-bound to " confult with, or take the advice of his " be confirained to pay any aids or taxes, i‘ even for the defence of the realm, or ‘5 confiituents upon any particular point, *‘ nnlefs he himfelfthinks it proper or pru" dent‘l‘o to do 1‘." " fupport of government, but fuch as are " impofed by his own con/mt, or that of f‘ his reprg/Z'ntcztive in parliament." To prove that every Englifhman has really a reprefentative in parliament, the fame commentator informs us, " that on- _" ly fuch are excluded (from the pri-" vilege of voting for a reprefe‘ntetive) as " can have no will of their own; that there " is hardly afree agent to be found, but * See Blackfione's Commentaries, vol.i. p. \Vhen the learned commentator comes to confider the foundation ofthe exclufive privilege of the commons, by which all grants of'fubfidics mull; originate in their; at See Blaclcfl-ene's Commentaries, vol. i. p. 172. Thevleamed author is rather hard upon us in this pallage. At‘a fingle firoke he deprives, I believe, three fourths of our fellow citizens of free will and free agency. is as Upon another occafion he {ingularly generous; he bellows free Will and free agency on rays oflight, watches, (Ste 53c. See ib. p. 38. 140, 5. edit. oftavo, printed at Oxford, 1773'. + See his Commentaries, vol. i. p. 159. " what L houfe, |