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Power capable of guarantying the Fidelity of the contracting Parties and of obliging them to fulfil their mutual Engagements, they would remain ſole Judges in their own Cauſe, and each of them would always have a Right to renounce the Contract, as ſoon as he diſcovered that the other had broke the Conditions of it, or that theſe Conditions ceaſed to ſuit his private Conveniency. Upon this Principle, the Right of Abdication may probably be founded. Now, to conſider as we do nothing but what is Human in this Inſtitution, if the Magiſtrate, who has all the Power in his own Hands, and who appropriates to himſelf all the Advantages of the Contract, has notwithſtanding a Right to diveſt himſelf of his Authority; how much a better Right muſt the People, who pay for all the Faults of its Chief, have to renounce their Dependence upon him. But the ſhocking Diſſentions and Diſorders with-