Thoughts On the Letter of Edmund Burke to the Sheriffs of Bristol On the Affair
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However, whenever the A- jnericans mail come to this country to deprive us of our Liber" tie*; I will readily join the Dp&pr in his idea of Retribution. are ( 4. 1 ) are witneffes to their in/litution y we know, we fee, and we find that they are militated dc Jure humano. The next obfervation to be made is the affi- nity of thefe Governments to that of our own country. They are founded on original Coin- pad:, and fo is ours. Th6 lines of diftinction betwixt the People, the Constitution, and the ...Law, are marked there as they are drawn here. The Conftitution is derived from the People, and the Law from the Conftitution. The Law cannot alter the Conftitution : for all and every Law and Statute that are, by the general Court's^ (equal to our Parliaments) made contrary there- to, are null and void : neither is the Conftitu- tion alter able ) but by general Conventions of the People at large^ held exprefsly and folely for that purpofe. If now then I mould profefs to believe that there is no more of divine authority in the Go- vernment of England, than in the Governments of America, a fample of which has been pro- duced ; and that the former is derived from the fame powers, by the fame means, and to the fame end, namely, the good of the whole, as the latter : I hope I (hall not be therefore ao counted an Infidel by the Church, nor an un- worthy Member of Society by the State.
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