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 Power capable of guarantying the Fidelity of the contracting Parties and of obliging them to fulfil their mutual Engagements, they would remain ole Judges in their own Caue, and each of them would always have a Right to renounce the Contract, as oon as he dicovered that the other had broke the Conditions of it, or that thee Conditions ceaed to uit his private Conveniency. Upon this Principle, the Right of Abdication may probably be founded. Now, to conider as we do nothing but what is Human in this Intitution, if the Magitrate, who has all the Power in his own Hands, and who appropriates to himelf all the Advantages of the Contract, has notwithtanding a Right to divet himelf of his Authority; how much a better Right mut the People, who pay for all the Faults of its Chief, have to renounce their Dependence upon him. But the hocking Dientions and Diorders