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Show minim in? p ' lay his State of the Cafe before my. Reader, hoping that it may remove all his Difficulties (if he has any) and work the fame F ulnefs of Conviction in his Mind, which it did in mine. " To reafon accurately, faid this upright and " able Lawyer, on the Origin of Parliaments, " we mui‘t trace the Matter up to its confiituent " Principles. Now the firft Idea which {hikes " one on this Occafion is, that of a large Af" fembly ofdit‘r‘erent Tribes of Warriors, either " preparing for fome military Expedition, or " puty, or Deputies, not for z'tfelf glam, THAT " IS THE GRAND MISTAKE, but for the Nation " at large, which could not afl'emble; and the " Powers to be granted to fuch Deputy, or " Deputies, were juf't the fame as the Nation " would have granted to them, had it been ac- " tually afl'embled. Hence therefore it comes " to pals, that each Deputy reprefents the whole " Nation in general, as much as if he had been *" elected by the whole Nation -, and confe" quently fuch a Deputy is the fltlormy (if he " mull be called by that Name) not of any one " particular Tribe, Society, or Difiriét, but of "‘ got together, after a Vi€tory, to {hare the " Booty, and divide the Lands among the Con" querors. When all are met together in one " the wlzole callefiz'vely : So that it becomes the " Duty of his Office to take Care of the Interefis " of all the People in general, lemufi lie repre- " Place, they chufe a Committee for managing " their Afl'airs; having found it impracticable " to tranfaét any Buiinefs of Confequence in "flmts than all. In Ihort, he cannot, confidently " with the Duty which he owes to the whole, " " _. " " any other Way. ' Now this Committee, chofen by the whole Nation, actually affembled, gives us the fin": rude Draught ofa national Parliament, or a national Council. " But in Proceis of Time, and when the Nation " had made large Conquefis, and was cantonfid ‘ into difiant Provinces, it was found to be ex- " pay any Deference to the Requeihlnltruvftion, " Remonfirance, or Memorial, of his particular " Electors, except in fuch Cafes only wherein " he is convinced in his Confczence, that the " Meafures, which they require him to purfte, " are ml z'lzcompalll'le wi l; flzcyxl :1: 15 mil." THUS far this great judge of the Br.€;‘.;//': Com fhtution. And tho" many important lnferences ‘ tremely inconvenient to afieinble the whole " Nation together into one Place. Therefore 65 the m‘ght be drawn from hence, which would cf: Y z _ feé‘t'ually v 4 " that each Canton, or each Dif'trié‘t, which could " alTemble, Ihould be authorized to elect a De- (Ch. exeellent judge FOSTER, that true Friend to all reafamlle Liberty, Civil and Religiousraf fay, having often heard him difcourfing on the Rife and Origin of Parliaments, I will ventureto Vial! a the next, and indeed the only Expedicnt, was, , unwed". mam!» v; [ ‘ I7I ] t 170 'J |