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 Laws regulates the Choice and the Power of the Magitrates appointed to look to the Execution of the ret. This Power extends to every thing that can maintain the Contitution, but extends to nothing that can alter it. To this Power are added Honours, that may render the Laws and the Miniters of them repectable; and the Perons of the Miniters are ditinguihed by certain Prerogatives, which may make them amends for the great Fatigues ineparable from a good Adminitration. The Magitrate, on his Side, obliges himelf not to ue the Power with which he is intruted but conformably to the Intention of his Contituents, to maintain every one of them in the peaceable Poeion of his Property, and upon all Occaions prefer the Good of the Publick to his own private Interet.