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Show 141] ‘- . E413 .. very unlike the iilufiveGlfi'dhlS‘C-f our ., ~1- he".1'13‘," ,de Lat £9" £111.06". But if any where the idea of 17.11:":‘1 :1 democracy ‘ the charm diflolves of itl‘clf. Who is {'0 ignorant as :11 need to he told, that the fyilem of laws in every civilizerl nation, thCfl'é'K/E, if ye will, in the univeife, wherein every memher is hisoown unvgiver, is re- the work of ages, and that no perfons living can, in alized, it is, as 11:15 been j'uttly O'Di'mVCLi by 101116 writers, in the diets and dietines of Poland; for111 any fenfe, he faid to be the makers of them? Our confmt couiil have not been 211de to the making oflaws, before we had an exifience; and it is 110 otherwifc the <.'11"1l>1il111811 aware/3'1; 01' th1t country , c1317 1316111531; 111 is, exery noh‘ieman, for 1'11: common3 are 110 hett: 1 than flares,11:...31t in his power to 110p the pro- endings of the 111110.12. The ma], not me nominal, eonf-11t of every individ1131 is there literally neeeifiry. '1110 eonfcqumm is, that noV111CC,UII'L1€1' fophi, 11105.11, or fultan, is .oere1e1so‘1121', 12-:liheitv, leis fecurity 111.111 there. every man. Every man is at the meicy of livery 1112111 11215 it in his pr wei to 110 that "1113 give it to them now, than as we give it to the laws of the univeri'e, 111 teeommodating ourfelves to them the heft way we can. Nay, there are many of them which, 1110' we {11hmit to them, we may difapprove, and would alter, if we could. To {21y they ethe 1m."1 01 or.111 nneeitors, is nothing to the put phfe. We are :5 diftinét perions £10m them,'15 from the people 01"? 1 ance or of E<rypt, and 0111 inclinati- for I can 1.2111 it neither g0'ernment no. eonhituti11, ons and feiitiir:e11t5 may he as diFerent from 111 eirs, as from thofe of any other nation whatever. And tho' it be true, that the prerent generation hath forne the greatiio‘r 01 our modern reouhl 1011155" 101111101: 111.1.C in tle1 L111'ine1sof lawmah111g, :18 well as former allow n1111eifto think f0. generations, it is equally true, t at in a {late confidaahiy advanLet‘. in civilization, allthe1.1ws thatcnn be much and puhlie nifehief, not one to 110.1.ny lublic and fuhitzuitial good. 15 then this 011.101tie jumble, Bot 121111 L'L'rtai.1 01 one thirb, that it is the only model \1'1ich their fmtaiiic 111112111118 fem: inany degree to juttity. I do not fay that that model, had as it is, is 0.11 01131 'rcpref'entition of the modern political monitLr 11/isoflm‘mz, that it equals the extravaganee1implied111 111211: in the time 01 any one fet of legiflators, 11111 feareLly he {0111111 to e:.eeed the ten tho-ufimdth part of the whole code. But if, by 2111 this parade of big words, no more is the Liefiuition given of a free or legal government, the meant than the 1:1"g::z'g',/L';'7zcc', which, from a principle only gov 11111'1e11t, wherein the people me 1111 or an ohl1g 11011 in cozifeience to 0'1heytthe magii‘lrite. 1 I; ‘ is, 171v they, '111ate wherein every mm is govern‘ e11"13y.laws 01'1118 own 111311111>'.'1‘he1e are indeed 11:11.": 1o.'13, 2.111.11 3111.11111th topic they furnifh to pc- 110111 of ptihiie utility 2.1111 of private, we give to the laws of our country, it might with equal truth be af- " ' ' Lr31-13ut if ye 110 not choofe [0 be fafciv gphrafcs, ye need on11y reflcfi, and firmed, that the laws of nature, whereby the heats in fummer, and the {terms in 'winter, '11111 the more mtemodatc weather in toring and autumn are con- dutltLd, are of our maxing, b:€3.qu WC {11d It 13011! 0111' duty at111 0111' in:ere1't 1'0 acqusiche1.11 them. Once |