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 and it is no matter which of thee Caues we adopt in regard to what I am going to etablih: that however, which I have jut laid down, eems to me the mot natural, for the following Reaons. 1t, Becaue, in the firt Cae, the Right of Conquet being in Fact no Right at all, it could not erve as a Foundation for any other Right, the Conqueror and the Conquered ever remaining with repect to each other in a State of War, unles the Conquered, retored to the full Poeion of their Liberty, hould freely chue their Conqueror for their Chief. Till then, whatever Capitulations might have been made between them, as thee Capitulations were founded upon Violence, and of coure de facto null and void, there could not have exited in this Hypothesis either a true Society, or a political Body, or any other Law but that of the Stronget. 2dly, Becaue thee Words Strong and Weak, are ambiguous in the econd Cae;