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 If they should now absurdly magnify and exalt the Privileges of the lower House, beyond the Limits prescribed by a free Constitution:—If their Pretence should be the Vindication of the People's Rights; while their real Motive was "the Restoration of their own exorbitant Power, founded on an expected Majority of their own Dependents:"—

If this Conduct was pursued by any Set of Men, they would stand convicted of a clear Mark of Licentiousness and Faction.

Such would be their main End or Purpose: And this End would be pursued by suitable Means: These Means, considered in Union, would still farther confirm and illustrate the End they aimed at: And these Means would be such as follow.