The Charter therefore by which provincial governments are conſtituted, may be always legally, and where it is either inconvenient in its nature, or miſapplied in its uſe, may be equitably repealed; by ſuch repeal the whole fabrick of ſubordination is immediately destroyed, and the conſtitution ſunk at once into a chaos: the ſociety is diſſolved into a tumult of individuals, without authority to command, or obligation to obey; without any puniſhment of wrongs but by perſonal reſentment, or any protection of right but by the hand of the poſſeſſor.
A colony is to the Mother-country as a member to the body, deriving its action and its ſtrength from the general principle of vitality; receiving from the body, and communicating to it, all the benefits and evils of health and diſeaſe; liable in dangerous maladies to ſharp applications, of which the body however muſt partake the
