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SECT. Parts of a Law.

intelligible, more than all that both of us may say shall have said together.

Those rights then which God and Nature have
established, and are therefore called natural
rights, such as are life and liberty, need not
the aid of human laws to be effectually invested
invested in every man than they are; neither
do they receive any additional strength when declared
by the municipal Laws to be inviolable.
What the author our commentator means by being
"more effectual investment" on this occasion, or by "additional
strength", I must profess myself utterly
unable to comprehend: but this I know that I
am heartily happy in glad of the aid of the human Laws
to invest in me my life and liberty, needless
as he may think it: that I do conceive
my right to them at least very much strengthened by
those same human Laws: and that were it
not for the said Laws, I should be much puzzled
to make out say what right I had to them at all.
in the contrary, he goes on continues he, "no human Legislator
has power to abridge or destroy them,
unless the owner shall himself committ some act that
amounts to a forfeiture". Here I am again
gravelled, not being able to understanding how it is that a
Legislator should not have power perhaps the

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