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G. Do you believe that any King or Emperor compelled them so to associate?

F. How could one man compel a multitude? A King or an Emperor, I presume, is not born with a hundred hands.

G. When a Prince of the blood shall, in any country, be so distinguished by nature, I shall then, and then only, conceive him to be a greater man than you: But might not an army, with a King or General at their head, have compelled them to assemble?

F. Yes; but the army must have been formed by their own choice; one man of a few can never govern many, without their consent.

G. Suppose, however, that a multitude of men; assembled in a town or city, were to chuse a King or Governor; might they not give him high power and authority?

F. To be sure; but they would never be so mad, I hope, as to give him a power of making their laws.

G. Who else should make them?

F. The whole nation or people.

G. What if they disagreed?

F. The opinion of the greater number, as