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Show [ 4 l [ 5 l " not, therefore, which public Appro- are reprefented (3) by the votes of the refpec‘tive proprietors ; fince every Frec- laolder has a Right to vote ; fo that, in " batz'on hath not made for" Agreeable to the famejuft principles of natural E- quity is that maxim of the Englilh Con- fiitution, that " Law, 2‘0 éimz' all, mufl " 63 (flamed to &y all 3" (Principia Leg. ethquit. p.56.) and there can be no legal appearance of Ajént without fome degree of Reprcflm‘atz'm. this one refpeé'c, the Reprefentation is general 3 and, thoughfizrfi'om EQUAL, would (fill be a fuflicient check againft arbitrary power, and afford fuflicient fecurity for the lives and property ofthofe perfons who have 720 Vote, if the laws againf'r parliamentary corruption (and ef- It mutt indeed be acknowledged, that the Reprefentation of the people of Eng- land is not f0 perfect as equity may feem to require, fince very many individuals pecially that Aét of 7 and 8 Wil. III. a4.) were duly enforced; and alfo if have no VOTE in Elections, and con- to render a firiét account of it, and to be fequently cannot be {aid expreflly to give their Ajflém‘ to the laws by which they feverely punifhed whenever convicted of exerting the influence of the pub/2'6 treaflay againtt pull/2'6 liberty ; which is the are governed: neverthelefs, the whole all perfons, who are entruf'ted with the difpofal of public Money, were required country which they inhabit, and in which they earn their bread, and even the very houfes in which they live, (whether they are houfekeepers or lodgers,) molt: baneful treachery and difhonefly are excellent obfervarions on this head, in a Pamphlet publilhed fince the above was written, entitled, A" that men in office (who are the fervants of (3) I mull beg leave to refer the reader alfo to fome / / zlrgumwt z'z: Dir/Gm: ofl/Je (Io/0711'", p. 76, 77, and :8. |