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[ xx ] an oath should be obtained to confirm the unjust “Power of the Exactor,” it will not encreate his Right; for the Baron's own doctrine (again in another part of his book) affords a sufficient answer to annul every pretence of Obligation on account of “oaths extorted by unjust Fear .”

Thus the maxim concerning the necessity of Assent, for which I contend, is sufficiently proved to be a Law of Nature even by the learned Baron's own arguments, and I desire no better.

In consequence of the Baron's general misconception, concerning the nec-