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Show 178 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL . I ‘K. excellent Judge FOSTER, that true Friend to /9 u the next, and indeed the only ExpediePt Wis ac that ‘ '1 ‘ \v " - all reafmméls Liberty, Civil and R eligiOtis,---1 fay, having often heard him dilcourfing on the Ri e and Origin of Parliaments, I will venture to lay his State Of the Cafe before my Reader, lmping that it may remove all. his Difficulties (it he has any) and work the fame Fulnefs of Conviél‘ion in his Mind, which it did in mine. " To reafon accurately, {aid this upright and " able Lawyer, on the Origin of Parliaments, " we mull: trace the Matter up to its conflituent " Principles. Now the firf't Idea which {trikes u - , J 3 t. 1 each Canton, 01 each Dil'tric‘t, which could I . aiTemOle, Ihoultl lDC authorized to elect a 1m. " puty, or Dcpuries, 710; for z‘iy/Erér‘gjg; ,~;j '11,"; 4‘ IS THE GRAND MISTAKE, but iiirthe Nation " at large, which could not affim ble; and the :: £21275;thwiecgrantcd‘ to: inch Deputy, or c, JLHE the lame as th: PVLIUOH " " " "‘ would have granted to them, had it been actua'lly aliembled. Hence therefore it comes to pafs, that each Deputy reprefcnts the whole Nation in general, as much as if he had been " one on this Occafion is, that of a large Af- " elected by the whole Nation 5 and confe- " fembly of different Tribes of Warriors, either " preparing for fome military Expedition, or " quently Inch 3 Deputy is the xii/crate): (if he " mufit be called by that Nane) not Ofanv one " got together, after a Victory, to (hate the " Booty, and divide the Lands among the Con" querors. When all are met together in one " Place, they chufe a Committee for managing " their Afl‘aii‘s; having found it impraéiicable " to tranfaét any Bufinefs of Confequence in " any Other \Vay. Now this Committee, " chofen by the whole Nation, actually alien]- " bled, gives us the firft rude Draught of a mi." tional Parliament, or a national Council. " particularrI‘ribe, Society, orDiilrift, buto f " the "LU/2016 wileflz'rvcly : So that it becomes the " Duty of his Office to take Care of the Interei'ts '" of all the People in generai, [$1731sz 715717073; "fem: t/zmz all. In fhort, he cannot, confidently " with the Duty which he owes to the whole, " pay any Deference to the Requef't, initruftion, " Remonfirance, or Memorial, of his particular "‘ Electors, except in fuch Cafes only wherein "he is convinced in his Conl‘cience, that the " But in l'rocefs of Time, and when the Nation " Meafures, which the,v r cquire him to purine, " had made large Conquefis, and was cantoned " are not z'mompa/Ji'f: cciii': 1.52: psrés'ic Gama.J n " into diitant Provinces, it was found to be ex- _THUs far this great judge of the Brit/)7; Con-- " tremely inconvenient to affemble the whole PC1tUtion. ‘f Nation together into one Place. Therefore And tho' many important lnferences mighfbe drawn from hence, which would eiZ " the M 2 feftually |