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Show ( 23 ) ( 29 ) rim, {'0 from the Cor/litution is derived the Law; the Coiflitution and the Law being, in a due courfe of lineal confanguinity, the defcendants of the People. But now I {hall be afl<ed, what is this Can itution, and what is this Law? I anfwer, that by pointing out their relations, their difference s too are marked. But this is not enough : defi- nition is neceffary, and therefore, as a defin ition of'tbe name I would fay, that Conflitution fignified Corn/Jae}, and was the fame with pun/1e or political Law; and that Law, as here mean t, was the nzuniczpal or Ci'UZl Law of the State : but as a definition of t/oe tiling, perhaps not/9 may take to be the true dittinétion, and real diffe- rence between the Coiylitution and the Law of England. But this is matter of T/Jeory only. It is the pafli've {late of Government, and Government muft be afii've. Prao‘tiee therefore is to be fuperadded to this Theory; and hence the ori- gin of Parliaments. What then are Parlia- ments .9 Parliaments make the formal, as Rig/m do the flea/lantial, part of the Confiitution ; and are the Deputies, the Agents, or Appointces of the People, entrufted by them with the Powers of Legi/lation, for the purpofe of pre- ferving (and not of deftroying) the eitablithed nzents entered into, thofe Rights determined upon, and thofe Forms prefcribed, by and be- Rights of the Conf'titution. But what are the efiablifhed Rights of theConf'titution P In detail; they are multifarious, and many : but reduced to their firft principles, they are thefe, " Security " if Life, Linerty, Property, and Freedom in " Trot/e." Such are the great Outlines of the tween the Members of any Society in the firfl' Engli/IJ Con/litution, the fliort hiftory, or abf'traél: fettlement of their union, and in the frame and mode of their Government; and is the Genus whereof the nzuniezpal or civil Law of fuch of that original Conzpaél, which is the bond or belt appear as derived the one from the other. I define Coiylitution then to be, thofe A'gree- el‘tablifhed Community is the Species : the form mer, afcertaining the reciprocal duties, or feveral relations fubfifting betwixt the governors and governed; the latter, maintaining the rights and adjufting the difi‘erences arifing betw ixt individuals, as parts of the fame whole. And this I take cement of our civil union, and which forms, in particular, the relations that exift betwixt the legi/lotirve Power of the State, and the People. But there is {till another relation to be confidered. The legi/lative Power of the State mutt receive its force from an executive Power. This exeeutive Power is lodged in the Crown, from whence a relation arifes betwixt the Crown and People; and is called "the Contraé‘t between " King |