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 Charter therefore by which provincial governments are contituted, may be always legally, and where it is either inconvenient in its nature, or miapplied in its ue, may be equitably repealed; by uch repeal the whole fabrick of ubordination is immediately destroyed, and the contitution unk at once into a chaos: the ociety is diolved into a tumult of individuals, without authority to command, or obligation to obey; without any punihment of wrongs but by peronal reentment, or any protection of right but by the hand of the poeor.

is to the Mother-country as a member to the body, deriving its action and its trength from the general principle of vitality; receiving from the body, and communicating to it, all the benefits and evils of health and dieae; liable in dangerous maladies to harp applications, of which the body however mut partake the pain;