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Dedication.
zen had a Right to propoſe any Laws that came into his Head, but that this Privilege belonged ſolely to the Magiſtrates; and that they too made uſe of it with ſo much Circumſpection, and the People approved the Laws propoſed by their Magiſtrates with ſo much Reſerve, and the Promulgation of theſe Laws was afterwards attended with ſo much Solemnity, that, before the Conſtitution could be any way endangered by them, every Member of the Community might have ſufficient Time to be convinced, that nothing contributes ſo much to render Laws holy and reſpectable, as their great Antiquity; that the Bulk of the People ſoon deſpiſe
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