Page:Hume - Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - 1809 - Vol. 1.djvu/61

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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
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lute monarchy, therefore, is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the British constitution.

Thus, if we have reason to be more jealous of monarch, because the danger is more imminent from that quarter; we have also reason to be more jealous of popular government, because that danger is more terrible. This may teach us a lesson of moderation in all our political controversies.

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