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Section VI.
Our Author's account of municipal Law.
To be copied
Municipal law (says our author) is a rule Vol.1. Page 44
"of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme
"power in a State, commanding what is right,
"and prohibiting what is wrong.
[We shall follow our author step by step, through
his explanation of the several properties of law,
as (to use his own words) they arise out of this definition."
["And, first (says she) it is a rule, not a transient
"sudden, order from a superior to, or concerning
"a particular person, but something permanent,
"uniform, and universal." [Now, though
I conceive, that whether the will of the legislator have
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