Excerpt from An Essay Upon Civil Government: Wherein Is Set Forth, the Necessity, Origin, Rights, Boundaries, and Different Forms of Sovereignty; With Observations on the Ancient Government of Rome and England, According to the Principles of the Late Archbishop of Cambray
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It is not pretended here, to form a Plan of Government ex empt from every Inconveniency.
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