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10) Statute Law. Kinds of Statutes.
would have stood excused by the realities of metro.
It would not then appear so regular, that the
very first sentence proposition he writes on the subject, should
be a false one: a representative of things
not with & the truth: individually probably
so as any man may see. He may think it
a justification to say, that such is the formal
language of the Law: and a valid justification it may
be deemed, by those, but by those alone, whose
desire is to hear things, not as they are, but
as they are said to be. "The thing makes" says
our Author "the Lords & Commons advise,
"and give consent". How should What is the truth? Preci—
cesely the reverse: as all the world knows, and
any man in it would on such has an occasion have intimated,
but a lawyer. I hope were any Lawyer almost
who took upon him to instruct young legislators
but our Author. "Advice", there's none: the
King it is, who "consorts": the Lords and Commons "make": The Kind can —
not alter any title. But we now touch upon
the most sensible fibre of in our author's frame.
Fickle it with the idea of the Royal Character,
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