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AN ESSAY
Concerning Parliaments at a Certainty.
CHAP. I.
Shewing that the Frequent meeting of Parliaments is the Baſis of our Conſtitution, and the True of the Government; and that the Intermiſſion of them is Inconſiſtent with the Body of the Engliſh Law.
If a Man would have an entire View of the Engliſh Conſtitution, he muſt have recourſe to thoſe Able and Approved Authors who have written Purpoſely on that Subject. For it is a Rule, Parva eſt Authoritas aliud Agentis; and what is ſaid by the by, is of leſs Weight, than what is profeſſedly handled; provided it have been Maturely conſidered, by a Competent Judge of that Matter of which he treats. And in this kind we
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