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 had a Right to propoe any Laws that came into his Head, but that this Privilege belonged olely to the Magitrates; and that they too made ue of it with o much Circumpection, and the People approved the Laws propoed by their Magitrates with o much Reerve, and the Promulgation of thee Laws was afterwards attended with o much Solemnity, that, before the Contitution could be any way endangered by them, every Member of the Community might have ufficient Time to be convinced, that nothing contributes o much to render Laws holy and repectable, as their great Antiquity; that the Bulk of the People oon depie