no one either eluded the Laws, or made an ill uſe of Magiſtracy, required neither Laws nor Magiſtrates.
Political Diſtinctions are neceſſarily attended with civil Diſtinctions. The Inequality between the People and the Chiefs increaſes ſo faſt as to be ſoon felt by the private Members, and appears among them in a thouſand Shapes according to their Paſſions, their Talents, and the Circumſtances of Affairs. The Magiſtrate cannot uſurp any illegal Power without making himſelf Creatures, with whom he muſt divide it. Beſides, the Citizens of a free State ſuffer themſelves to be oppreſſed merely in proportion as hurried on by a blind Ambition, and looking rather below than above them, they come to love Authority more than Independence. When they ſubmit to Fetters, 'tis only to be the better able to fetter others in their turn. It is no eaſy Matter to
