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Show t 4! l " State." Such is this Compaét, and fuch, I are witneflEs to their inflitution, we know, we prefume, being all other original Compacls in fee, and we find that they are initituted de jure 620724720. their firft infiitution, it is no wonder that their exif'rence {hould be denied, inafmuch as they are the fovereign antidotes of thofe political The next obfervation to be made is the affi- poifons, Pricfl-Crnfi‘, and State-Cregfi‘, whofe objeéts are dominion over " the Beafis of the nity of thefe Governments to that of our own country. They are founded on original Com- paé't, and {o is ours. 5‘ ‘People*." I i I i A i ‘ Here too is an " infiitution of Government," but where " the divine authority" of it is, who can difcover? Indeed, in a century more, for we are already giving up things for words, fin/r, for found, and from the golden falling back into the iron age again, {rich notions of Government may be Well reeeived. Tradition will inform. pof'terity that the Governments of America The lines of dif'tine‘tion betwixt the People, the Confiitution, and the Law, are marked there as they are drawn here. The Conf'titution is derived from the People, and the Law from the Confiitution. The Law eannot alter the Conl'titution : for all and every Law and Statute that are, by the general Courts, (equal to our Parliaments) made contrary thereto, are null and void: neither is the Conflitu- were infiituted de jure dioino, and not without tion alternole, but by general Conventions of the People 42‘ large, held expre/sly and folely for fome reafon on their fide 3 inafmuch as the that pUrpofe. more nntnrnl any Government is, in my opiw, ' ' mm the more divine it is; but now that we If now then I {hould profeis to believe that there is no more of divine authority in the Go- * Such is Doétor Cooper's human: appellation of thofe pcrfons vernment of England, than in the Governments in America, who plundered, as he fays, the Members of the Church of England, Him,'I fuppofe, among the refi, and others, of their property; 'adding, " Without any means of pre" fent redrefs, though it is to be hoped, not without a profpcét ‘3 of future retribution", Methinks the Doétor, having received a flap on one cheek, in the true fpirit of a Chriltian, {hould have turned the other, and not have looked forward to a profpeét of plundering the Americans of their property, becaufe they had plundered him of his. However, whenever the A~ of America, a {ample of which has been pro-‘ duced; and that the former is derived from the fame powers, by the fame means, and to the fame end, namely, the good of the whole, as the latter: I hope I {hall not be therefore ac- mericans {hall come to this country to deprive us of our Liner- counted an Iiyidel by the Clozzrcb, nor an unworthy Memoer (f Society by the State. I mull: riw, I will readily join the Doétor in his idea of Retribution. hope too, that if our Parliaments, who are the are. Try/lee: |