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 the Englih contitution differs from theirs. All Government is ultimately and eentially abolute, but ubordinate ocieties may have more immunities, or individuals greater liberty, as the operations of Government are differently conducted. An Englihman in the common coure of life and action feels no retraint. An Englih Colony has very liberal powers of regulating its own manners and adjuting its own affairs. But an Englih individual may by the upreme authority be deprived of liberty, and a Colony diveted of its powers, for reaons of which that authority is the only judge.

overeignty there are no gradations. There may be limited royalty, there may be limited conulhip; but there can be no limited government. There mut in every ociety be ome power or other from which there is no appeal, which admits no retrictions, which pervades the whole mas of the community, regulates and adjuts all ubordination,