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 a vote of the Houe, as that he hall be no longer eligible by lawful electors.

we mut again recur, not to poitive intitutions, but to the unwritten law of ocial nature, to the great and pregnant principle of political neceity. All government uppoes ubjects, all authority implies obedience. To uppoe in one the right to command what another has the right to refue is aburd and contradictory. A tate o contituted mut ret for ever in motionles equipoie, with equal attractions of contrary tendency, with equal weights of power balancing each other.

which cannot be enforced, can neither prevent nor rectify diorders. A entence which cannot be executed can have no power to warn or to reform. If the Commons have only the power of dimiing for a few days the man whom his