Page:A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a Share in the Legislature (1775) (IA declarationofpeo00shar).djvu/290

 me through this minute examination of the said assertions, especially as they relate to the most important points of the CONSTITUTION and COMMON LAW of England and Ireland.

And I hope, also, that my Readers Will not charge me with presumption, for having, in the course of this argument, opposed the opinions of such very respectable Writers as Baron Puffendorf on the CIVIL LAW, and the Judges Coke, Vaughan, Jenkins, and Blackstone, and the Hon. Mr. Barrington, on the Laws of Engand. If my Remarks should, in any part, be thought too severe, I am sorry for it: I can only assure my Readers that the least personal disrespect is not intended; for I am sufficiently senilble of my own unworthiness and too superficial knowledge in all things; and have, therefore, most carefully avoided any doctrine which may seem to rest merely upon the weak foundation