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Show TO SERIES OF ANSWERS (0 ," f g , , .\ '~ r . ‘ '. Q ' _ wet fima _ /rfi r/ ‘? mjfl amx \ "('53:)""7 yioxj ) ‘J(y_'{~"k'b!9‘¥"§ty€ th-ylcé'QE/I *7 Qéigg'éggu .I POPULAR OBJECTIONS. 6r tional Buildings to it, which had no real Ufe , . Symmetry, or Proportion; but which have " weakened the original Strufiure, by drawing it OBJ'ECTION XI. m Eng; E/EJILL not the fevering America fro land have the fame ErTeEt in our poli of}, or tical Conllitution, as that of cutting ar, or a ihiking away a main Prop, a maffy Pill ding? ,. ilrong Buttrefs from an antient,icrazy Buil s are ANSWER I. METAPHORICAL Objection The heft confuted by metaphorical Replies. y in Eng/Mt Conftiturion is by no Means craz , the itfelf: It is built of Materials the bell yet diffiirongefi, and the mof't durable of any :out of its true Perpendicular. ANSWER 2. Mararnoa apartz-As our éConftitution is compofed of three ditlhre-nt Powers, the Regal, the Ariflocratical,.and the Democratical; and as the Mock-Patriotsand Republicans [are in full Cry, that the Crown hath too much Power already by the Dilpofal ,of {o many Places; '1 ails, With what Face can .thele Men Opprz-fe 3. Separation, if they really think Whatthey fay? The Places in JVort/zAmerica lately in the Difpofal ofthe Crown (or "if you pleafe, of the Minil‘try) were (great and Moreover it hath this. dmall) fome Hundreds. And yet»you,a fiaunch of it peculiar Excellence, that every Part Patriot! You, who are for ever «crying out, e firengthens the other Parts, at the fame Tim that it fupports itfelf.---Pom'erz‘[2m Zz'brm‘a fuis, t was ajul't Compliment paid it by an excellen 0 Liberty! 0 my Country!) You-who defire to counter-aft the Influence of the Crown covered in» the World. Trea» Judge, MOKf d6 Lnlmc, in his admirable tile on the Englzflz Confiitution. But as all more Things may be impaired by Time, and el‘pecially as the bell: of Things may be injured by unlltilful Treatment, {0 it hath happened, that ignorant Undertakers have endeavoured to repair, and perhaps, as they imagined, to deco- rate this goodly Fabric, by flicking many additional 'by legal and conf‘titutional Means, with ne- ‘"vei‘tl:elefs to retain dear America with all its *evil Appendages of Places, Penfions, Sine- Cures, Contracts, ‘Tobs, SIC. &c. &C. What Abfurdity! ‘Nhat Inconliilency is this ! Surely there muf't be fome deeper Reafon for fuch a Conduft than any that has been yet afiigned. ANSWER 3. THE true Reafon is the following. As long as ever Nori/z-A'merz'm {hall re- main E3 |