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 belongs to him: Let us form Rules of Jutice and of Peace, to which all may be obliged to conform, which hall not accept Perons, but may in ome ort make amends for the Caprice of Fortune, by ubmitting alike the Powerful and the Weak to the obervance of mutual Duties. In a word, intead of turning our Forces againt ourelves, let us collect them into a overeign Power, which may govern us by wie Laws, may protect and defend all the Members of the Aociation, repel common Enemies, and maintain a perpetual Concord and Harmony among us."

Much fewer Words of this kind were ufficient to draw in a Parcel of Rutics, whom it was an eay Matter to impoe upon, who had beides too many Quarrels among themelves to live without Arbiters, and too much Avarice and Ambition to live long without