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 though the purport of any law, so made, be in itself perfectly just and equitable, yet it becomes otherwise (11) (that is, unjust and iniquitous, and therefore unlawful) by the want of these necessary legal Formalities (12) of Representation and Assent: for if the inhabitants of one part of the empire might determine a question, or enact a law, for the peculiar advantage only of that one party though to the manifest detriment and injury of another party without the Representation of the latter, the former part would be made judges in their own cause; a circumstance that would be literally partial! the very reverse of justice and natural equity, and which must, therefore, be esteemed iniquity,