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- pleaders device

The Posteriety-chainer's device or fallacy consists in the finding in some existing law or engagement a pretense for refusing to administer any effectual /the necessary/ remedy to the /any/ abuse or other imperfection that has been pointed out: and the ground on which it argues it /to/ the assumption /assuming/ that the legislature or sovereign power of any past time that at all times[?] and on all occasions or at any rate that on some occasions the legislator or sovereign power of the country acting at any given point of time ought to be considered as having it in his power in regard to any part of parts of the field of legislation at his choice to debar the legislature of all future times or at least for some length of time then to come from the exercise of his poewr: and that, at each future /any given/ point of time, a prohibition to any such effect having been declared, the legislature /sovereign/ of that time ought to consider it as binding on him, and himself divested proportionally, of his /such/ power and that in the event of his attempting so to exercise the power of which he has been this divested

the subjects of such subsequent sovereign ought to refuse to him their obedience, taking for the rule of that action the will of the dead legislator /departed sovereign/ in preference and opposite to that of the living one adhering to the dead man or set of men in opposition to the living ones. /to those that are in existence./
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    If there be no sufficient reasonf for considering the whole legislature /entire sovereignty/ of a nation as having it at any one point of time in its power to divest /debar/ the entire sovereignty of any future time from exercising, much /still/ less can there be any sufficient reason for considering a portion of that same sovereignty as possessed of that same power of continuing to do /operate/ mischief without remedy and without end.

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