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 able to hake off their honourable Yoke; this wholeome and pleaant Yoke, which the proudet Necks carry with o much the greater Docility, as they are not made for carrying any other.

I hould therefore have deired, that no Member of the State hould be able to boat of his being uperior to its Laws, nor the State have any Reaon to fear its being obliged to receive Laws from any other. For, let the Contitution of a Government be what it will, if there is but one Man in it exempt from the Laws, all the other Members mut necearily be at his Dicretion (1);