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SECTION III.

OF

CIVIL LIBERTY.

SECT. I.

Of the nature of Civil Liberty in general.

IT is a matter of the greatest importance, that we carefully distinguish between the form and the extent of power in a government; for many maxims in politics depend upon the one, which are too generally ascribed to the other.

It is comparatively of small consequence, who, or how many be our gover-