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Ch. 1.
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tion may fully juſtify the obſervation of a learned French author, who indeed generally both thought and wrote in the ſpirit of genuine freedom[1]; and who hath not ſcrupled to profeſs, even in the very boſom of his native country, that the Engliſh is the only nation in the world, where political or civil liberty is the direct end of it’s conſtitution. Recommending therefore to the ſtudent in our laws a farther and more accurate ſearch into this extenſive and important title, I ſhall cloſe my remarks upon it with the expiring wiſh of the famous father Paul to his country, “Esto perpetua!”
- ↑ Monteſq. Sp. L. 11. 5.
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