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Show <16) (I7) Much has been {aid of the right of cauqng/z‘; and hiflory ought, if pollible, to make an adequate return for the fervicc s contains little more than accounts of kingdoms reduced by it under the dominion of other kingdoms, and of the havock it has made among mankind. But. the authority derived from done to it; but to I‘uppofe that it ought to give up the pmver hence, being founded on violence, is never rig/arm]. The Roman Republic w.s nothing but a faétion againlt the general liberties of the world; and had no more right to give law to the Provinces fubjec‘t to it, than thieves have to the propetty they {eize‘, or to the houi‘es into which they break.--~ Even in the cafe of a jutt war undertaken by one people to defend itfelf againf't the opprefiions of another people, conquelt gives only a right to an indemnification for the injury which occafioned the war, and a realonable {ecurity againt't future injury. of governing itl'ell", and the (lilpoiél of its property, would be to l‘uppol‘e, that, in order to thew its gratitude, it ought to part with the power of ever afterwards exereilinu gratitude --- How much has been done by this kingdom 'mi- Hairs-Tier? But no one will fay that on this account, we have a right to make the laws of Ifanovrr; or even to draw a tingle penny from it without its own content. After what has been laid it will, I am afraid, be trifling to apply the preceding arguments to the cafe of diliferent Communities, which are coniidered as different parts of the lame Empire. But there are reafirns which render it necellary {or me to be explicit in rnakinpr this application. Vii/hat l mean here isjiiit to point out the dilTerente of litu- ation between communities forming an li‘yirfz'rg, and particu- vNeither can any {tare acquire fuch an author'ty over other Rates in virtue of any compat‘fs or 65/207215. This is a cafe in which compaéts are not binding. Citril Liberty is, in this lar bodies or claflbs of men forming dirti'r'eiit parts of a King- refpeel, on the fame footing with Rad/giant Liberty. dom. As no people can lawfully furrender their erz'giaus Liberty, by giving up their right of judging for themfclves in religion, or Different communities forming an szrpz'rr have no con- nexions, which produce a ntcei'larv reciprocation of interefts between them. They inhabit (lllFCTc‘nL diltriéts, and are go- by allowing any human beings to prefcribe to them what: verned by different lebiflaturesqun the contrary. faith they {hall embrace, or what mode of worlhip they {hall ferent clalies of men wit/2m a K‘z'gdam are all placed on the fame practile; to neither can any civil focieties lawfully furrender their Civil Liberty, by givingr up to any extraneous juril'ditftion their power of legiflaring for theml‘elves and dil'poiing their property. Such a ceilion, being inconfiltent with the un- who: is done to one part mull .Lillc‘t all Theta: are firua- tiens tat-ally diilerent; and a conflitution of government that maybe cortlii'tcnt with Liberty in one of them, mly he entire- alienable rights of human nature, would either not bind at all; or bind only the individuals who made it. This is a blelling which no one generation of men can give. up for another; and which, when left, a peorile have always a right to refurne. ----- Had our anceilors in this country been (0 mad ground. 'l he dif- Their crrnccrns and interefls are the lame; ly ineonfiftent with it in the :-ther. and It is, however, certain that, even in the lait of their: iituations, no one t‘r'lr't ought to govern the relt. In order to a fair and equal government, threre fuch a fiate. And all the nations now in the World who, in confequence of the tamenefs and folly of their predeceiibrs, ought to be a Fair and equal repr'eleritzition of all that are governed; and as far as this is wanting in any ;_:i\vcrnnicnt, it deviates from the principles of Liberti , and becomes unjul't and opprei'live. ------ llut in the tircumilnnces of (litl'ert'nt cem- munities, all this holds with ‘unl‘peakably more torce. The government of a part in this cafe becomes complete tyranny; are fuhjeét to arbitrary power, have a right to emancipate and l‘ubjeé‘tion to it becomes complete llavcrv. as to have fubjee'ted themfelves to an? foreign Community, we could not have been under any obligation to continue in themfelves as {eon as they can. But ought there not, it is afked, to exil't {omewhere in an ‘ If neither cougar/2 nor (07;:an can give. fuch an authority, Empire a fupreme legiflative authority over the whole; or a much let‘s can any favours received, or any {erviees performed power to controul and bind all the different dates of which by one Prat: for another.----~Let the Favour received be it confitts.--~--This enquiry has been already anfwered. what it will. Liberty is too dear a price for it. truth is, that {uch a lirpreme controulinpr power ought to exifi A flare that has been 06.7?ng is not, therefore, bound to be wflaitwl. 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