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Common Law. How far consented to by the People

We shall presently see him come back again to
this argument: but in the mean time inspired with
the sound of the word freedom we find see him on a
sudden fly off in a tangent, drop his
subject, and bewilder himself in a labyrinth of Latin
texts quotations, the purpose of which is as foreign from to what
he was before speaking of before and after them, as any
thing that can be imagined.

written Law that is to the sort of Law that is made by
persons acknowledged for Legislators: in the next place,
to draw an inference to the advantage of the unwritten
Law from the idea of it, false as it is
that he has given. In other In the course of this business,
he takes to introduce something something do happen'd to occur to him that
had been said by the minister of a Roman Emperor in favour of
the binding force of the unwritten Law. It happen'd
that in the same passage the same Emperor Lawyer had
dropt something about the petition [and which he had assigned a spurious plausible but
fictitious origin foundation to the binding force of the Statute Law.]
about the Statute Law. From thence our Author
takes occasion to speak of [a difference between the different constitutions
the constitution at different periods] of the sovereign
Legislative power, [a matter that had nothing at
all to do with the deference paid to the Law
unwritten,] as if that had any concern in the business
that was before him. The sovereign Legislative

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