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To be copied "cet homme la".

contempt, or indignation. Can a man
be imprisoned, impilloried, whipt, or hanged
by Representative? if not, if Does the penalty of the
Breach of a law does not fall upon his my Representative?
surely it is absurd to tell
him, that how then is the law is sufficiently promulgated
to me because whilst while the Knowledge of it is locked up
in the breast of his my Representative? How
can it be said, that the subject ought to be
acquainted with the law, when it is almost +
out of his power to be acquainted with it?
How can it be said, that he might have known
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which, not one man in a hundred
throughout the whole kingdom, can afford? # aa
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[ If the in Judgment of the law be that the circumstance
of being represented makes a man party
to every Law, the intendment of the Law
must be that each representative should
inform each of his Constituents of every
law that has been past in every Sessions:
w that the representative be punishable
for the breach of the Law in his Constituents,
if he neglect to give them this information.*
Our learned Author did once
I think represent some important & independent
borough: Pure & uncorrupt as were the morals of his Constituents
I fancy he would not chuse to pay
the expences of every, Suit that was
instituted, every penalty levied, or to submit
his back to every stroke that
was inflicted on his Constituents
for the breach of Laws, of which,
[they had no knowlege] but from common
report, they had no knowlege.

Note * In one of the absurdest governments that was ever patched up, this the following wise institution finds a place. The nuntios of a Polish dict, assemble their constituents at their return, & lay before them an of all the transactions of the Dict. See Lengnich. Ius publ. Pol. Volumen Legum passim

— But farther, says our author Vol.1 P.46, "municipal
law is a rule of civil conduct, prescribed
by the supreme power in a State". -->
[I shall examine in a Section: by itself, hereafter what
our author has said , concerning the nature
of Society, and civil government ; concerning
the Sovereignty of a State in general, and
that of these Kindgoms in particular. For
the present it is sufficient to observe, that by the
supreme power, he tells us that sup he means, that

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