Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Letter to the People of England, Recommending a Simple, Cheap, and Effectual Method of Defending Themselves and Their Country, at This Alarming Juncture
In the firf't place then I lay it down as a fundamental pofition in a free country, the fine qua non, that the people fhould be ar med, without this precaution, all the laws that ever were written are of no confe quence, Locke and Milton have wrote and Sydney and Hampden have bled in Vain, the bill of rights and magna charta are mere wafte paper, empty claims, to be trampled upon or thrown into the fire by the firfi: invader or tyrant who is firong enough to make his will the law.
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