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has refued his aent to laws, the mot wholeome and neceary for the public good.

Quod dedit principium adveniens?—From the very outet we may judge of the candor of the Congres.—Let any man, unacquainted with the contitution of America, but ak his elf, what concluion he would draw from the perual of this article? Would he not naturally conclude uch to be the contitution of America, that the King was of neceity a party in every Act of Colonial Legilation; that no law could take