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unlimited and unlawful (33) Government, is more easily conceived than expressed; because the condition of all subjects would be alike, whether under absolute or limited Government, if it were not lawful (34) to maintain and preserve those limitations, since Will and Pleasure, and not Law, would be, alike in both, the measure of obedience; for, to have liberties and privileges, unless they may be defended, and to have none at ally is the fame thing as to be governed by mere Will and Pleasure” (Lord Sommers, p. 24.); and "misera eft servitus ubi jus est vagum aut incertum."
GRANVILLE SHARP. Old-Jewry, London, June 25, 1774.
