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 army, by whomsoever paid, must ever be dangerous to constitutional Liberty and Law.

The army were, indeed, the nominal servants of the Parliament, but were nevertheless the absolute Lords and sovereign Directors of the same, having ejected whomsoever they thought proper, and thereby modelled the national Representative into a representation only of their own body and party, (as has been said,) so that it ceased from that time to deserve the Name of a Parliament or "Legislature,”