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Excerpt from Observations on the Popery Laws
N every Confiitution, political, as well as na tural, there are original fprings and princi ples by which the (economy of the whole is con duaed fome communicate vigour, and promife longevity 3 others, feemingly performing the func tions, and occafionally promoting the purpofes of life, tend ultimately to its diffolution. They are the feveral components of a complicated ma chine, aéting and aéted upon alternately; now co-operating, now counter-working, as events favour, or accidents affect their feveral powers. Hence therefore, the great firength of attention, and the great exertion of (kill, nece?'ary to pro duce all the Good, and remedy every Evil which fuch a Confiitution is capable of admitting. This is properly the province of the Legi?ature in every Country; and particularly in our own, where power becomes either a remote, or an immediate delega tion from the people, this taik of managing the fprings, or correcting the deviations of the ma(6)
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