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 its military Constituents: This wretched Assembly, though in the highest degree despicable in itself, was nevertheless invested with Sovereign AUTHORITY (46) over England, Scotland, and Ireland, by an instrument drawn up expressly for that purpose, and signed by the General (Cromwell) and the principal Officers of the Army; so that we have here an undeniable precedent for governing England, Scotland, and Ireland, without the Representation and Assent of the People of any of these Kingdoms; and yet no one will pretend to say, that the same can justify any future attempts to deprive either