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Show l218} [ 219 ,l " follows" (fays he) "flew the very na" tare and con/Zitution of a DEPENDENT " STATE: dependence def/7g very little €le " upon cubic/J flue z'nfirior depends." And then he immediately adds: " 7793 original F f 2 " and " 5312‘ an OBLIGATION TO CONFORM T0 " THE WlLL OK LAW OF THAT‘ " SUPERIOR PERSON OR STATE (76) " upon (76) The Inf/l5 do not pretend to deny a [EgalDt'flEfldflfltt on the {uperior State of England, for they acknowledge that the Sovereignty of their llland is infeparably annexed to the Crown of England, of which, I believe, I have already quoted fome examples: but, when Dependents is defined (in the manner judge Blackltone re. I "Ill-Mlllllll_ ' am: II" nulm' |_ 'r M‘fi'fir ‘l ‘ , act-v- the word "Law," tvz'z. " Will or Law," fays he, thatis, " an Obligation to conform to the ll'ill or Larw " of that fupcrior Perfan or State," Efl'r. which is, in- (lee-J, a molt lively del'cription of the dangerous will. mired Tower of the French, Pruflian, or Imperial, Ad. minifirations of Government; for, wherefoever thefe two words, 'xVILI and LAW, are confldered as lynonimous, there Lari/J mull, ot‘courfe, be any thing (be it ever to wicked or iniquitous) that the Superior pleafcs; that is, in lhort, " Qimtl Ilrz'ndpijllm'uiz Ltgil baéet l"!" germ; ."' But I have already held up that detellable prcfents it) as " an Oéligation to wife/m to 1/72 Will or " Law of the {uperior Pei-tron or State," {:5}. it ceafes to be a legal Dependence, according to the common Larw and therefore I {hall now only remark, in general, that andConflizntz'cn of England; though the learned judge acknowledge any {uch Precept as the fetting up the Maxim of the devil Law to the View of my Readers; neither the LAWS of England nor the LAWS of Ire/am! i5 certainly right enough, if he will be pleafed to con- WILL of a Superior for Law; or, (what is the fame tine his Definition of Deprntlmre to thole Countries where the (231/21 La-w prevails, as in Frame or PruJ/fz‘a for inllance; becaufe, in fuch defpotic Realms, the op- thing,) they do not acknowledge any fuch Rate of prefl‘ed People feem, indeed, to acknowledge " an " Obligation to conform to the "fill or Law of the/24- " perior Per/2m or 8mm" and the learned Commentator, if he meant to refer to the Laws of {uch enflaved People as thefe, mull certainly be allowed to have delivered his meaning in the molt "Frill/5W and judiciau: terms that he could poflibly have chofen for flu/J npurpofl; for, in {peaking of " tbs Will" of " 11m: fiperior Perfan or " Slate" to which he {uppofes " an Obli'galianta (an- ""f§:rm," 555:. he mentions it as a fynonimous term to the " Dependence" as an OBLIGATION to conform to [be " WILL 0R LAW" (thofe {ynonimous Terms) " g" " (be fitperz'or Pen/6n ar State," 35:. Our Larwr, indeed, acknowledge the King ofGreat. Britain for the time being as the " Superior" or Head Of both Kingdoms; but the " Dependence," which is thereby required of " [be byerior," (whether theterm, inferior, be applied to the inferior Kingdom asfubarn'inare, or to l'erfons, mix. to each Individual as a Sut- jeéz,) in either cafe, is a politir or legal." Dependence," and not aé/olule and unlimi/ed. - " Prinapalu namgut " Ira/um REGAL}, fedtt POLITICO, z'g/E fuopapula dam" namr." |