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SECT. Parts of a Law.

legal power (I h mean legal power) that the Legislator
has to do every thing he has physical power
to do, or else he would not be one, (that "omnipotence"
as our Author Commentator calls it when
he is in a rhetorical mood) our old friend
the Law of Nature is to be understood in this
case to come and take away. But letting
and telling him give the legislator as much or as little
that pass power as he pleases, one question I find myself obliged
to put to him that may be a little troublesome.
Has the legislator or has he not power to
declare what such act shall amount to a forfeiture?
If not he has, what is the subject the better
for this want of power in the legislator that so much stress
is laid on? If not, what is to become of those
laws that have inflict loss of life or liberty for their
sanction? that is, what is to become of the greatest
part of all our Laws?

"Neither do divine and or natural duties (such
as, for instance, the worship of God, the maintenance
and of children, and the like) (what are
the like?) receive any stronger sanction from
being also declared to be duties by the Law of
the land. I am now quite gravelled. Either he
means by this that [what he means by] the part he calls the law the

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