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, detroy things noxious to them, and o may bring uch evil on any one, who hath trangreed that law, as may make him repent the doing of it, and thereby deter him, and by his example others, from doing the like michief. And in this cae, and upon this ground, every man hath a right to punih the offender, and be executioner of the law of nature.

§. 9. I doubt not but this will eem a very trange doctrine to ome men: but before they condemn it, I deire them to reolve me, by what right any prince or tate can put to death, or punih an alien, for any crime he commits in their country. It is certain their laws, by virtue of any anction they receive from the promulgated will of the legilative, reach not a tranger: they peak not to him, nor, if they did, is he bound to hearken to them. The legilative authority, by which they are in force over the ubjects of that common-wealth, hath no power over him. Thoe who have the upreme power of making laws in England, France or Holland, are to an Indian, but like the ret of the world, men without authority: and therefore, if by the law of nature every man hath not a power to punih offences againt it, as he oberly judges the cae to require, I ee not how the magistrates of any community can punih an alien of another country; ince, in reference to him, they can have no