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Show COMMON it SENSE. ts fist: of government, let us (tip-graft: a {mall number of perfot ed with , unconnefl tied in lome ifqm‘fle":il part of the earth then reptefent the fiifl peopling of any the rcfi, they wizl Country, or of the world, and motives will fociety will be their flit thought. A thouf is to unequal man one of gth firen excite them home, the tual folitutieg to his wants, and his mind to unfitted for perpe relief of anoand that he is foon obliged to feel: afliflance united ther,who in his turn requires the fame. Four or five in the midfi of at would be able to raife a to'erable dv'Velling the Common pe-~ wildernefs, but one man might labour out i when he had thing riod of life without accomplifhing any ereé't it after it nor ; it ve felled his timber he could not remo d urge him woul time mean the in was removed; hunger a different him call want rent diffe every and from his work, . for death be d way. Difea-fe, nay even misfortune woul difablc d though neither might be mortal, yet either woulhe mighth whic in f'tate a to him e him from living,and reduc _ . rather be {aid to pctilh than to die. foon formi d vitoul Thus necsflitydike a gravitating ptivver, reciprocal blelo' our newly arrived emigrants into fociety, the the obligations:. r rende and fede, fuper tinge of which would remained of law and government unneceffary while they en is irriheav bttt ng perfectly iuft to each other ; but as nothi in prothat en happ y idabl pregnable to vic e, it will unavo ation, emigr of s ultie diffic (hit the mount portion as they f'trr will. they , which bound them together in a c ommon caufe a other each to nt begin to relax in their duty an d attachme g liihin efl‘ab of ity uccefl the out and this rtm'fli‘rcfs will point moral virtue; fame form of government to fupoly the dcfeé't of Houfe, unSome convenient tree will atford them a State afl'embld der the branches of which the whole colony may probable: than more is It ra. matte to deliberate on public -a full laws will have the title only of REGU'LA‘Tx that their public dife‘ CNS and be enforced by no other penalty than - fieem. In this hilt parliament every man, by natural right, _ will have a feat. public concerns will he the fet, increa y colon the But as ers may creafe likewife, and the diflance at which the memb all of lhen'r be foparated, will render it- too inconvenient for vi 9 SENSE.‘ COMMON In this {late of nathral liberty, to meet on every occafiun as at firfl,when their on b ‘ fmdalh thf‘ll' habitattttns near, and the pubfic concrerlrt ? :51: ignrzflfgio tIE:S :llllpclllf out the convenic tce if their {1 t} > g . a at e tegtflattve part to be rm raved b a e et. number chafett from the who e body wh- 5 f .l' fed ‘9 have the lame concerns at if. k- which t‘i fgal": "990‘ apoorrr-ed them, and who will aéi in th. lami- tfi:;:x'):‘foWh0 whole body wuu'd ac} wee they 'prcfetit - .lt‘tlinu Jim: continue increaiiitg, it wil become needn't; to "u re- f0 WY number ofthe rcpchentatives, and that the in": ll‘mim "H: part ofthe colony may be attended to it wrl blci " ‘dflmv fit dmd: the whole ittm convenient nv-Itta. t‘dLl'! catfut: dhéfi its omptr number ; a d hat: the. elxfiyd myhr "2401' for. M; .ifjfnv'C-WCS an in inert fettarate fr: to he ejetilar: tut-if? ‘0 rat‘ljrli‘90alsnthUt/tgfldpltlpglely of hauttg elections chitin :h: .- . C can a mtg ‘ by that nit-nits return" and ‘ - glitz; 2235:2572?" tgody ofI tbhe t/afhrr in a few mrtrinfhii‘n,‘ ‘ v. ‘ Ipu .ie in e fecured b the ‘i'u" - ggxirtri ohnm making a rod for thcmiclVZS. gndtcttgtth‘is evsq‘tent interchange will eflab'tfh a common intetefi with n‘elA'yr part ofthe community, they will mutually and ham"anymupfpgrt each other, and on this (not on the urmeanirv burg"; gig/3e dcpendsd the flrnzgtb of government, 4714'le a mode lcemr'éeiltd te Gilgal‘n éere th Elwyn"! '. and rife ‘ of government; namely, to govern the worldcjehtji? tab itshfhlendhiii‘y Of mom Virtue :ernmetit, viz. freedom and fecurityffiidfiofiig (8):; t . . {cyfidmahyo‘l‘i'ecv tzlazsrgludtzééh"(3:91? our car? deceived by darken our und _r _ I'p our WI ls, or intereff "arm will {ayfitfiiasnfiglii the fimple voice of nature and of ci lfih‘w my idea of the form of government from a prin-w {p nature, which no art can overturn viz that ih ‘ ' ‘grnglefigpy thingdis, the leis liable it is to be difordere: "hail: . y.- repaire when difordered - wiihth' ' ' ' ' I diet a few remarks. on the {o mytich beaksiied coniiit maxtm t' ‘ in mg" ggépg‘l}a;t}l;icfi'l‘hat it was noble for the dark and iinTfl: . l ttwas erected, is granted. When 2h.- w 'd was over-run with tyranny the leaf! remove therefrom grind; :1 a |