Whether they are herein made the tools of cunninger workmen, to
pull down their own fabric, they were best look. This I am sure,
their civil policy is so new, so dangerous, and so destructive to
both rulers and people, that as former ages never could bear the
broaching of it; so it may be hoped, those to come, redeemed from
the impositions of these Egyptian under-task-masters, will abhor
the memory of such servile flatterers, who, whilst it seemed to
serve their turn, resolved all government into absolute tyranny,
and would have all men born to, what their mean souls fitted them
for, slavery.
Sec. 240. Here, it is like, the common question will be
made, Who shall be judge, whether the prince or legislative act
contrary to their trust? This, perhaps, ill-affected and
factious men may spread amongst the people, when the prince only
makes use of his due prerogative. To this I reply, The people
shall be judge; for who shall be judge whether his trustee or
deputy acts well, and according to the trust reposed in him, but
he who deputes him, and must, by having deputed him, have still a
power to discard him, when he fails in his trust? If this be
reasonable in particular cases of private men, why should it be
otherwise in that of the greatest moment, where the welfare of
millions is concerned, and also where the evil, if not prevented,
is greater, and the redress very difficult, dear, and dangerous?
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