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SECT. VII. Municipal Law

confound men's understandings, and inflame their passions,
one should not expect otherwise than to find it countenanced
by our Author [who keeps open house for
every] in whose works every popular and professional
prejudice is at home.

⊞ ⊞ To give my own sentiments of the matter. I have my catalogue of Laws that commanding as far as appears to be me what is not right: and prohibiting what is not wrong.
For my part I have my catalogue of bad Laws
and as well as good Laws like other people: very bad laws
some; so bad, that it grieves me much to think
of them.⊞ ⊞ What follows, in my opinion? that they are not Laws? No such thing, but only that they ought not to be. Bad as they are, I find and yet I find no more difficulty to in
owning them [the bad] for Laws than if they appeared the best I know of
to me ever so good. I see much mischief in
holding them to be no Laws ⊞ ⊞ for the following are the consequences that may be drawn from it.: because if no Laws
then is the enforcing them an act of violence without
authority: and if an act of violence without
authority then an act which a man is in the
right to resist: how to resist, if the execution enforcing of
them be still persisted in, by those that used them
terminates in rebellion. And there Inferences these which
those men who use this language are apt For secretly to wish to have
drawn by others, tho' perhaps not always hardly aware of it
always themselves, and with tho' they choose not to
own it when aware: but this I think, or none must be their purpose
in it, or this when they use it.

Now many are the Laws I I could conceive, against any of which I should think
it right to rebel as soon as I could get enough
to join with me to give me a prospect of success: but I know not of any such subsisting
at present taking them singly or taking them even in the whole: much less should I think it right
to rebel against every single one of the many which I vehemently
disapprove of.

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