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 enible; Electioneering took place; Factions aroe; the Parties contracted ill Blood; civil Wars blazed forth; the Lives of the Citizens were acrificed to the pretended Happines of the State; and things at lat came to uch a pas, as to be ready to relape into their primitive Confuion. The Ambition of the principal Men induced them to take Advantage of thee Circumtances to perpetuate the hitherto temporary Charges in their Families; the People already inured to Dependence, accutomed to Eae and the Conveniencies of Life, and too much enervated to break their Fetters, conented to the Increae of their Slavery for the ake of ecuring their Tranquillity; and it is thus that Chiefs, become Hereditary, contracted the habit of conidering Magitracies as a Family Etate, and themelves as Proprietors of thoe Communities, of which at firt they were but mere Officers; to call their