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 against their Will and Consent? For with what Forehead can we pretend to the Consent of the People, when we act under the Power of those, who have bereft them of their free Voices; that have so often offered Violence to their Representatives, in whom their Consent was lodged; and so lately turned them out of this House? But though we had the general Consent, and an uncontrouled Authority to establish a free Government; yet how is it possible for the Wit of Man to contrive any thing, that shall agree with so many different and repugnant Spirits and Interests, though we should