3. "To frame a government for ourselves."

This new, and hitherto unheard of, bill of rights, though made in the

name of the whole people, belongs to those gentlemen and their faction

only. The body of the people of England have no share in it. They

utterly disclaim it. They will resist the practical assertion of it with

their lives and fortunes. They are bound to do so by the laws of their

country, made at the time of that very Revolution which is appealed to

in favour of the fictitious rights claimed by the society which abuses

its name.

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