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 diability, which a vote can uperinduce to expulion, is no more than was included in expulion itelf; it is only a declaration of the Commons, that they will permit n longer him whom they thus cenure to it with them in Parliament; a declaration made by that right which they necearily poes, of regulating their own Houe, and of inflicting punihment on their own delinquents.

have therefore no other way to enforce the entence of incapacity, than that of adhering to it. They cannot otherwie punih the candidate o diqualified for offering himelf, nor the electors for accepting him. But if he has any competitor, that competitor mut prevail, and if he has none, his election will be void; for the right of the Houe to reject, annihilates with regard to the man o rejected the right of electing.