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 no one either eluded the Laws, or made an ill ue of Magitracy, required neither Laws nor Magitrates.

Political Ditinctions are necearily attended with civil Ditinctions. The Inequality between the People and the Chiefs increaes o fat as to be oon felt by the private Members, and appears among them in a thouand Shapes according to their Paions, their Talents, and the Circumtances of Affairs. The Magitrate cannot uurp any illegal Power without making himelf Creatures, with whom he mut divide it. Beides, the Citizens of a free State uffer themelves to be oppreed merely in proportion as hurried on by a blind Ambition, and looking rather below than above them, they come to love Authority more than Independence. When they ubmit to Fetters, 'tis only to be the better able to fetter others in their turn. It is no eay Matter to