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Show aft: 0 MMO N-WEJAL 7 H. €54,042. pm 23 plainly, and directly difcharge them oftheir fiubjeétion. For confe. 11.6 quences of words, are not the {ignes of his wrll, when other conic. quences are fignes ofthe contrary; but rather fignes of errour, and mifreckonniiag; to which all mankind is too prone. The boun s of that Power, which is giVen to the Reprefentative of a Bodie Politiquc,are to be taken notice of,from two‘things. One is their Writt, or Letters from the Soveraign: the other is the Law of the Common-wealth. By me For thouOh in the Inflitution or Acquiiition ofa Common-wealth, Patmtr: which is independent, there needs no Writing, becaufe the Power of the Reprefentative has there no other bounds, but fuch as are fet out by the unwritten Law of Nature 5 yet in fubordinate bodies, there are fuch diverfities of Limitation neceifary, concerning their bufinefl'es, times, and places, as can neither be remembred without Letters, not taken notice of, unleIIe fuch Letters be Patent, that they may be read to them, and withall fealed, or teflified, with the Seales, or other And becaufe fuch Limitation is not alwaies eafie, or perhaps poll 1'4""- t t i I l l l l l l l l l of themgand therefore the grant were either voyd, as proceeding mmhgrf'mt' from Errour, commonly incident to humane Nature, and an unfulfieient flonc of the will of the Granter ; or if it be avowed by him, then isihe Reprefenter Soveraign, and falleth not under the prefent queflion, which is onely of Bodies fubordinate. No member therefore is obliged to pay the debt (0 borrowed, but the Reprefentativc himfelfe : becaufe he that lendethit, being a fitanger to the Letters, and to the qualification of the Body, underflandeth thofe onely for his debtors, that are engaged :, and feeing the Reprefenter can ingage himfelfe, and none elfe, has him onely for Debtor -, who mufl: therefore pay him, out of the common flock ( if there be any,) or (if there . be none ) out of his own eftate. . 6'7 0"? 7476 firangcr; allthey, and onely they are. refponfible for the debt, that 1,.45/, 2M ry one of thofe in voting did engage himfelfe for the payment : For he that is author 0f the borrowing, is obliged to the payment, even of the whole debt, though when payd by any one, he be difcharoed. Letters, nor by the Lawes, is his own a&, and not the act of the B0- dy. net of any other Member thereof befides himfelfe : Becaufe fur- ‘ ther than his Letters, or the Lawes limit, he reprefenteth no mans perfon, but his own. But what he does according to thefe, is the act of every one : For of the Act of the Soveraign every one is Author, becaufe he is their Reprefentative unlimited ; and the act of him that recedes not from the Letters of the Soveraign, is the act of the Soveraign, and therefore every member of the Body is Author of it. When it is am But if the Reprefentative be an AIIembly ~, whatfoever that Al'- it due, or to the fact for which the Multit was impofed; becaufe eve- ml, But if the debt be to one of the Aficinbly, the Allémbly onezly is ffthe debt obliged tothe payment, out of their common flock (if they have 5,3 W W of any :) For havmg liberty of Vote, if he Vote the Mony, lhall be bor- 2"," i166?- rowed, he Votes it {hall be ayd; lf he Vote if {hall not be borrow- ail/‘7'; :6: ed, or be abfent, yet becau e in lending, he voteth the borrowing, he 1,3,;contradit‘leth his former Vote,and is obliged by the later, and be- comes both borrower and lender, and confequcntly cannot demand payment from any particular man, but from the common Treafure onely; which t‘ayling he hath no rcmed , nor complaint, but againfl: himi‘elte, that being privy to the acts 0 the AiIembly, and to their {IflErnélw fembly {hall Decree, not warranted by their Letters, or the Lawes,is The??? 0f the act of the Affembly, or Body Politique,and the act ofevery one means to pay, and not being enforced, did nevertheleile through his £33324 by whofe Vote the Decree was made ; but not the act of any man own folly lend his mony. 1' that being pte fent Voted to the contrai ; nor of any man ablent,unleil‘e he Voted it by procuration, It is the aft of the AIIembly, becaufe Voted by the major part ; and if it be a crime, the Afleinbly may be puniihed, as farre-forth as it is capable, as by diffolution, or forfeiture of their Letters, ( which is to fuch artificiall, and fictitious Bodies capitall,)or (ifthe Aermbly have a Common frock, wherein none 0 the Innocent Members have to riety,)by pecuniary For from corporall penalties Naturelhat exempted all BodiesMulé‘t: Politique_ But they that gave not their Vote, are therefore Innocent, becaufe the Ail‘embly cannot Repre fent any man in things y their Letters, and confequently are involved in their unwarranted Votes. We!» tit-"R" If the perfon of the Body Politique being in one man, borrow itinfrfzzyr'f mony of I" hm: . ' If he come into debt by Contraé‘t, or Mulé‘t, the cafe is the fame. W5‘" it "4" in all Cafes, where the Letters themfelves are filent. And therefore bi: unwar- Oilflj. :27 gave their votes to the borrowmg of it, or to the Contract that made have "1p". 1‘4 one man, are his 0th Chap". fible to be defcribed in writing 5 the ordinary Lawcs, common to all Subjerfts, mutt determine, what the Reprefentarive may lawfully do, wk," t1" Re- In a Body Politique, if the Reprcfentative be one man, whatfoeprefenmtive yet he does in the Perfon ofthe Body, which is not warranted in his rantrd Aft: of COMMON-WEALTH; But when the Reprefentative is an Afl'embly, and the debt to a gal/pm?" permanent fignes ofthe Authority Soveraign. 34rd "'16 rim; nations to limit lending)the debt is the Reprel'entatives. For if he many," m {hould have Authority from his Letters, to make the members pa "fig! 3:?! what he borroweth, he {hould have by confequence the Sovcraignty :22 'orzluri; a flranger, that is, of one that is not of the fame Body, ( for no Letters need limit borrowing, feeing it is left tomens mm inch; nation It is manifefl by this, that in Bodies Politique fubordinate, and Prateflatim Iiib)eet to a Soveraign Power, itis lometimes not onely lawfull, but Wei/‘0'? b9: expedient, for a particular man to make open proteflation againft the £3?" "f _ decrees ol'the Reprefentative Allembly, and caufe their diflent to be "dug" 1 01" Regiitred, or to take witnelle of it,becau1‘e otherWife they may be rrzxei£:;;l. obliged to pay debts contracted, and be i'efponfible for crimes com- (m again/z." mitted by Other men .- But in a Soveraign Ailembly',that liberty is ta- Saver-agar ken away, both becaufe he that protefteth there, denies their Sove- PW" "Win riignty ,and alfo became whatfoever is commanded by the Soveflign Power, is as to the Subject (though not [0 alwayes in the fight 0! God) juftified by the Command; forof fuch command every Boil": 'I'a/iSllb‘lCC/t l5 tllC Author. tz'yzefar Ga- 1 he variety or Bodies Politiqut, is almofr infinite : for are WWW" "f noionely diitinguiihed by the feverall affaires, for which they they are ("-040"me 2 conflitutcd, Tum». |