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 By continuing in this manner to compare Facts with Right, we hould dicover as little Solidity as Truth in the voluntary Etablihment of Tyranny; and it would be a hard Matter to prove the Validity of a Contract which was binding only on one Side, in which one of the Parties hould take every thing and the other nothing, and which could turn out to the Prejudice of him alone who had bound himelf. This odious Sytem is even, at this Day, far from being that of wie and good Monarchs, and epecially of the Kings of France, as may be een by divers paages in their Edicts, and particularly by that of a celebrated Piece publihed in 1667 in the Name and by the Orders of Lewis XIV. "Let it therefore not be aid that the Sovereign is not ubject to the Laws of his Realm, ince, that he is, is a Maxim of the Law of Nations which Flattery has ometimes