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 Before Experience had demontrated, or a thorough Knowledge of the Human Heart had pointed out, the Abues ineparable from uch a Contitution, it mut have appeared o much the more perfect, as thoe appointed to look to its Preervation were themelves mot concerned therein; for Magitracy and its Rights being built olely on the fundamental Laws, as oon as thee ceaed to exit, the Magitrates would ceae to be lawful, the People would no longer be bound to obey them, and, as the Eence of the State did not conit in the Magitrates but in the Laws, the Members of it would immediately become intitled to their primitive and natural Liberty.

A little Reflection would afford us new Arguments in Confirmation of this Truth, and the Nature of the Contract might alone convince us that it cannot be irrevocable: for if there was no Superior