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 Republic o happily ituated, could have nothing to fear but from itelf; and therefore, if its Members made Arms their Study, it mut be rather with a View of keeping alive that martial Ardour, and that generous Spirit, which become Liberty o well, and erve to maintain a due Relih for it, than thro' any Neceity of providing for their Defence.

I hould have ought out for a Country, where the Legilative Power was common to all its Inhabitants; for who can be uppoed to know better than the Members of a Society, upon what Terms it is properet for them to