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Show ' ‘OfC'OMMON-WE ALTH. Chap." conflituted, Wherein there is an unfpeakable diverfitie; but alfo by the times, places, and numbers, fubjeét to many limitations. ~And as to their afiaires, fome are ordained for GoVernment; As hrft, the Chap-2‘2." of c 0 MM 0 N-WE AL TH." I'm 22 And generally, in all Bodies Politique, if any particular memberconceive himfelf Injuried by the Body it felf, the Cognifancc it}; of his caufe belongeth to the Soveraign,‘ and thofe the 80veraign Government of a Province may be committed to an Ailembly of hath ordained for judges in fuch caves, or {ball ordaine for that men, wherein all refolutions {hall depend on the Votes of the major part-7 and then this‘ Afiembly is a Body Politique,and their power li- particular caufe ,‘and not to the Body it felf. For the whole Body is in this cafe his fellow fubjeét, which in a Soveraign Airembly, 4? mited by Commiflion. This word Province fignifies a charge, or is otherwife: for there, if the Soveraig‘n be not Judge, though in his care ofbufineife, which he whofe b'ufineife it is) committeth to ano- own cauie, there can be no Judge at all. ther man, to be adminiftred for, and under him 5 and therefore when InaBodie Politique, for the Well ordering of forraigne Traf- 34:11:! PHIL H714: for or; fique, the mofl commodious Repreferitative is an AiTembly of all drying of in one Common-wealth there be dive rs Countries, that have their Lawes difiinc‘t one from another,0r are farre diftant in place, the Adminiflration of the Government being committed to divers perfons, thofe Countries where the So'v'eraig‘n is not refident, but governs by Commiflion , are called Provintes. But of the government of a _ . . / the members;that is to fay, inch 21 one, as every one that advenTriideo tureth his mony, may be prefent at all the Deliberations, and Refolutions of the Body, ifthe will themfelves, For proof whereof, we are to coniide'rthe end, or whiéh men that are Merchants, and few examples. The Romans who had the Soveraignty of many Pro- may buy and fell, export, and import their Merchandife, according to their own difcretions, d‘oe nevertheleife bind themfelves vinces; yet governed them alwaies by Prefidents, and Prmtors; and up in one Cor oration; It is true, there be few Merchants, that Province, by an Aifembly refidino in the Province it felfe, there be not by Aifemblies, as they governed the City of Rome, and Territories adjacent, Inlike manner, when there were Colonies fent from England, to Plant Virginia , and Simmer-[lands -, though the overnment of them here, were committed to AiTemblies in L0» on, yet did thofe Aflemblies never commit the Government under them to any Affembly there -, but did to each Plantation fend one Governour -, For though every man, where he can be prefent by Nature, defires to participate of government -, yet where they Cannot be pre‘ fent, they are by Nature alfo enclined,to commit the Government of their common lntereit rather to a Monarchicall, then a Popular form of G0vernment : which is alfo evident in thofe men that have great private eflates ; who when they are unwilling to take the paines of adminiflring the bufineife that belongs to them,choofe rather to trui'c one Servant, then an Affembly either of their friends or fervants. But howfoever it be in tact, yet we may fuppofe the Government of a Province, or Colony committed to an A'ifembly : and when it is, that which in this place I have to fay, is this -, that whatfoever debt is by that AiTembly contracted ; or whatfoever unlawfull Aét is de- creed, is the Aft one] of thofe that aifented , and nOt of any that diilented, or were ablentrfor the reafons'before alledged. Alto that an Ailembly refiding out ofthe bounds of that Colony whereofthey with the MerCiandife they buy at home , can fraighta Ship, to export it-,or with that they buy abroad, to bring it home, and have therefore need to .joyn together in one Society; where every man may either participate ofthe' gaine, according to the roportion of his adventure ; or take his own, and fell What he tranfports, or imports, at fuch prices as he thinks fit. But this is no Body, Politique, there being no Common Reprefentative to oblige them to any Other Law,than that which is common to all other fubjeéts. The End of their Incorporating, is to make their gaine' thelgrea- ter; which is done two wayes; by fole buying, and {ole felling, borh at home, and abroad. So that to grant to a Company of Merchants to be a Corporation, or Body Politique, is to grant them‘ a double Monopoly, w ereof one is to be fole buyers 5 another tobe {ole tellers. For whenthere is a Companyincorporate for any particular r‘orraign Country, they only export the Commodities vendible in thatCountr ~,which is fole buying at home, and {ole felling abroad, For at iomc there is but one buyer, and abroad but one that (Elleth: both which is gainfull to the Merchant, becaule thereby they buy at home at lower, and fell abroad at higher rates :. And abroad there is but one buyer of forraign Merchandife, and but onethat l‘clsrhcm athome, both which againe are gainful] to the have the government, cannor execute any ower over the perfons, or adventurers. goods of any of the Colonie, to feize on them for debt, or other duty, in any place without the Colony it felfe,as having no Jurifdiétion, Of this double Monopoly one part is difadvantageous to the people at home, the other to forraigners. For at home by their fole cxportationthcy fetwhat price they pleafe on the husbandry, and lwndy-worlts otthe people -, and by the {ole importation, what price they plcafe on all forraign commodities the people have need of; both which are ill for the people. On the contrary, by the {ole ' nor Authoritie ellctttherc, but are left to the remedie, which the I aw of the place alloweth them. And though the Aflenibly have right, to impofe a Mulét upon any of their members, that {ball breakdthc Lawes they make -, yet out of the Colonic it felfe, they have no riOht to execute the fame And that which is {aid here, of the Rights ofbas Aflembly, for the government of a Province, or a Colony, is appli‘ able alfo to an Afleinbly for the Government of a Town, an Uni‘ Wl‘hty,_0r I1 C‘olltgepr aChurch,or for any other Government over the perlons of men. And .-..A a._‘.».1ua‘"* M22":- . _ _ ‘ idling of the native Commodities abroad, and {ole buying the forw iaign commodities uponthe place, they raile the rice of thofe, and 3b.![t the price ot‘tlieie, to the difadvantage of t 1e forraigner: For where but one felleth,the Merchandife is the dearer, and wherebut .a‘y '118- |