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lxxviii one chamber are not the maxims of another.

aoniing contrariety in the laws of one kingdom! In Paris a man, who has been an inhabitant during one year and a day, is reputed a citizen. In Franche-Compt&eacute; a freeman who, during a year and a day, inhabits a houe in mortmain, becomes a ave; his collateral heirs are excluded from inheriting his foreign acquitions, and even his children are deprived of their inheritance, if they have been a year abent from the houe in which the father died. This province is called Franche, but where is their freedom?

we to attempt to draw a line between civil authority and eccleaical cuoms, what endles diputes would enue? In ort, to what de oever we turn our eyes, we are preented with a confued cene of contradictions, uncertainty, hardips, and arbitrary power. In the