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 legal and constitutional Principles ; though, on the other hand, they are to be esteemed of very great weight and authority in Law, when there are no just exceptions against them. And of this latter kind is the Example which I have quoted to illustrate my declaration: for, though many great and respectable Writers have made exceptions to the constitutional Freedom of Ireland, which I had supposed to be unquestionable, yet, after the most careful examination of their opinions, and the reasons given for the same, (in which the proofs ought to consist,) I am now fully convinced that there are no just exceptions against that example; and, consequently, I am bound, in justice to my fellow-subjects in Ireland not to give it up; because the