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 as Men they hold from Nature, their Parents have no Right to trip them of it; o that as to etablih Slavery it was neceary to do Violence to Nature, o it was neceary to alter Nature to perpetuate uch a Right; and the Juriconults, who have gravely pronounced that the Child of a Slave comes a Slave into the World, have in other Words decided, that a Man does not come a Man into the World.

It therefore appears to me incontetibly true, that not only Governments did not begin by arbitrary Power, which is but the Corruption and extreme Term of Government, and at length brings it back to the Law of the tronget againt which Governments were at firt the Remedy, but even that, allowing they had commenced in this manner, uch Power being illegal in itelf could never have erved as a Foundation to the Rights of