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Dedication.
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And where there are two Heads, one National, and the other Foreign, let them divide the ſovereign Authority in the beſt manner it can be divided, it is impoſſible that both ſhould be well obeyed and the Government properly adminiſtered.
I ſhould not have liked to belong to a Republic lately formed, whatever good Laws it might be bleſſed with; for, as the Government of it might poſſibly be otherwiſe framed than preſent Exigences required, I could not promiſe myſelf that it would not be ſhaken and deſtroyed, almoſt at its Birth, either becauſe the new Adminiſtration did
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