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 Society, nor of coure to the Inequality of Intitution.

I hall not now enter upon the Enquiries which till remain to be made into the Nature of the fundamental Pacts of every kind of Government, but, following the common Opinion, confine myelf in this place to the Etablihment of the Political Body as a real Contract between the Multitude and the Chiefs elected by it. A Contract by which both Parties oblige themelves to the Obervance of the Laws that are therein tipulated, and form the Bands of their Union. The Multitude having, on occaion of the ocial Relations between them, concentered all their Wills in one Peron, all the Articles, in regard to which this Will explains itelf, become o many fundamental Laws, which oblige without Exception all the Members of the State, and one of which