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Show 54 . Acrs RELATING Part I. SeEt. 1U. 53 To THE CoLomls. {pecifie powers or exemptions grounded m, own confim‘ freely given, either in perfl on them. or by his own reprefentative, flier/y chofen. In fupport of this principle, the vener~ able name of Locke is 9" rung incefi'antly in our ears :--he is to prove it to be found- ed in fome immutable law of nature. And if this be not enough, fhould the apofiolic This right of nature (it is faid) is part1of cularly recognifed by the confiitution our own country, where taxes are afree of lawyers, from Coke down to Bluackfione, are to be brought up in array. They are to prove it an eliential part of the Britifh conflitution. The principle is this.--That no power on earth has a right to take away any part of any marfis propertyl: without his 9" It is remarkable, that thoi'e who now cite Locke, to prove a want of power in the parliament, {hould be the fame who, on another occafion, cited the fame Locke, to prove the king has a difpcnling power. T The term property is here ufed For the Ming over which we exercife the right of property, and not for the rig/2: itfelf. ' ' '4 an . i To judge of the validity of this maXIm, erthe firl'c point necefl'ary will be to und order be inverted, fhould this immutable put on mutability, then the whole phalanx ' gift fiand it. A point which has been over- part. looked, or overleaped by the greater ced. of thofe by whom the maxim is addu y to To underftand it, it will be neceffar define the terms of it. This proceeding, I am fure, MrrLockc per- would not have objected to, though he foradvcnture in the prefent infiance . got to adopt it. g, I What is property? It is that t/rm the proapprehend, or good which you, particuprietor, have a right to ufe in a the exclu- lar manner, and you alone, to fion of every other man whatever. the \Vhence iarifes this right? From law which command of the law. It is the E 4. iaye |
