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 can immediately end back, if they can expel but cannot exclude, they have nothing more than nominal authority, to which perhaps obedience never may be paid.

repreentatives of our ancetors had an opinion very different: they fined and imprioned their members; on great provocation they diabled them for ever, and this power of pronouncing perpetual diability is maintained by Selden himelf.

claims eem to have been made and allowed, when the contitution of our government had not yet been ufficiently tudied. Such powers are not legal, becaue they are not neceary; and of that power which only neceity jutifies, no more is to be admitted than neceity obtrudes.