ABSTRACT
The Nature of Government is such, that as it removes with the Inhabitants, it must depend upon the Proprietors: He that owns a Country, and is Lord of the Soil, must have a Right to direct who shall, or shall not, live upon his Estate, and upon what Conditions; as he parts with any of the Property he shares out the Heriditary Power, ‘tis annext to the Estate. Right of Government is a Perquisite of the Inheritance; and if any one Man own’d the Fee-simple of this Island, the Inhabitants must all be his Tenants, and must receive Laws from him; if he pleased, he might command them to remove, as Landlords warn out their Tenants, when they will let them enjoy the Farm no longer: If the Landlord should sell this Estate or Property, the Right of Power must give attendance, and stand annext to the Freehold, else the next Proprietor would be a Slave to his Tenants; they would pay him no Rent, but what, when, and how, the Purchaser should direct, and be a Slave himself all the while he was a Prince.
