4 July 1811 11

Fallacies V ad Juperbriam

Attempt at perpetuate[?] a discourse[?] government - subject to on all those occasions. Incorporation the most favourable

But though in this case /the effect of its comprehension[?]/ the law by which the two sovereignties are melted down into one is not itself defeasible, such is the nature of the law incorporative uniting law - of the law by which the two sovereignties are melted down into one - being consumed, a new one is formed /made to arise/ out of their ashes of it, that the effect of it is perpetual - and that not defensibly but indefensibly perpetual, yet the new sovereignty which is thus formed being in its nature /in the respect in question/ nothing different, from any ordinary sovereignty in which no such operation had been performed, the principle of defeasible perpetuity is the principle in which its subsequent times will naturally be established which in the establishment of its several successive laws will be /be/ conformed to, as naturally as the case of either of the two incorporated sovereignties at all times [...?] to the act of incorporation as it was in the time and in the case of either of the united /component/ sovereignties

But while in respect of duration the principle of defeasible perpetuity is on all these occasions the most fit and the most likely to be pursued, yet in all these cases a sort of straining to convert this defeasible into an indefeasible perpetuity is a sort of disease /disorder/ to which in all countries the body politic is subject: - and to the growth /birth/ of it the occasion of an incorporative union is as these will presently be occasion to observe in a peculiar degree favourable.