ABSTRACT
However upright and able Men may be in planning a Form of Government, the fluctuating State of all human Things is that no opulent Nations can long proceed in the right Way, without frequently returning to the first Principles on which they were established. Despotism on one Hand, and Anarchy on the other, are the Consequences to be dreaded from a King’s or People’s Power, increased beyond the due Proportion. The Commons of England are the Representatives of the People; five hundred Men are intrusted with the Liberties, Properties, and Privileges of Millions. Laws may become the most tyrannical of all Oppression, even more to be dreaded than the Despotism / of Kings; for which Reason, every good Representative of the People will with Pleasure receive whatever can be offered for or against them by his Fellow-Subjects.
