diſſimilar materials, raiſed by different architects, upon different plans. We muſt be content with them as they are; ſhould we attempt to mend their diſproportions, we might eaſily demoliſh, and difficultly rebuild them.
Laws are now made, and cuſtoms are eſtabliſhed; theſe are our rules, and by them we muſt be guided.
It is uncontrovertibly certain, that the Commons never intended to leave electors the liberty of returning them an expelled member, for they always require one to be choſen in the room of him that is expelled, and I ſee not with what propriety a man can be rechoſen in his own room.
Expulſion, if this were its whole effect, might very often be deſirable. Sedition, or obſcenity, might be no greater crimes in the opinion of other electors, than in
