Chap. II. states particularly the laws themselves in a plain and popular manner.
Chap. III. begins the remarks upon them, under the heads of, 1st, The object, which is a numerous people; 2dly, Their means, a restraint on property; 3dly, Their instruments of execution, corrupted morals; which affect the national prosperity.
Chap. IV. The impolicy of those laws as they affect the national security.
Chap. V. Reasons by which the laws are supported, and answers to them.
the plan of a work upon that subject, the fragments of which are now given to the public. No title is prefixed to it in the original manuscript; and the Flan, which it has been thought proper to insert here, was evidently designed merely for the convenience of the author. Of the first chapter some unconnected fragments only—too imperfect for publication—have been found. Of the second there is a considerable portion, perhaps nearly the whole; but the copy from which it is printed is evidently a first rough draft. The third chapter, as far as it goes, is taken from a fair corrected copy; but the end of the second part of the first head is left unfinished; and the discussion of the second and third heads was either never entered upon, or the manuscript containing it has unfortunately been lost. What follows the third chapter appears to have been designed for the beginning of the fourth, and is evidently the first rough draft; and to this we have added a, fragment which appears to have been a part either of this or the first chapter.
