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of your own Magiſtrates. Do not all its Members give you the moſt perfect Example of Moderation, of Simplicity of Manners, of Reſpect for the Laws, and of the ſincereſt Reconciliation? Why therefore will you not place, for your own ſakes, in ſuch wiſe Superiors that unreſerved Confidence, which Virtue has a Right to expect from Reaſon? Conſider that they are of your own chuſing, and that they do juſtice to your choice; conſider that the Honours due to thoſe, whom you have conſtituted in Authority, neceſſarily reflect upon yourſelves. Is there any one among you ſo inattentive as not to ſee, that, when Laws once loſe their Vigour, and the
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