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Dedication.
able to ſhake off their honourable Yoke; this wholeſome and pleaſant Yoke, which the proudeſt Necks carry with ſo much the greater Docility, as they are not made for carrying any other.
I ſhould therefore have deſired, that no Member of the State ſhould be able to boaſt of his being ſuperior to its Laws, nor the State have any Reaſon to fear its being obliged to receive Laws from any other. For, let the Conſtitution of a Government be what it will, if there is but one Man in it exempt from the Laws, all the other Members muſt neceſſarily be at his Diſcretion (1);
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