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SECT. VI. Municipal Law

This is the only rule I know can think of for submission and
resistance. Does it fail of being explicit? I know of
noe that's more so. At least the worst there is
nothing in it ti favour the pretensions of fanaticism either political or
religious fanaticism. It states places a question difficult to
solve in it's natural light of difficulty, without deluding
men with a false solution.

To take present times for an example.

I see nothing in the present or say late situation of affairs, or in any
future probable one, to warrant resistance: that is, to
make it worth men's while. But the notion of that rule
that of a Law's being void by being against a pretended Law
of Nature, makes existence warrantable nay a point of duty, at any time,
or at none.

Of all the matter that goes by the name of Law contained
in [his first Colume]
there is not a single jot that bears the face of a
command or a prohibition.
Having got this definition by rote, he set it down in this
place –

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	sect. vi municipal law
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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