[…?] June 1811 H

Abdication

Remedy

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H. of I.[?] not an ordinary Corporation. J.B. advises[?] in Procedure on B.R. that every man has a remedy: this […?] not being the remedy we must look out for some other .

{Now then, too, as to the great /capital/ trust in question whether it be or be not in this sense abdicated by a large majority of the whole body, and therefore by the whole body itself, habitually and constantly abdicated}

Such being the disorder /state/, now, Sir, as to the remedy.

Speaking of a corporation, the disorder consisting as above is this that[?] viz. that “the condition upon which it” (the ‘body politic’) “was incorporated has been ‘broken’”, “and thereupon the incorporation is” (i.e. has become) ‘void’ - “the regular course” (says Blackstone) “is to bring an information in the nature of a Writ of Quo Warranto, to inquire by what warrant the Members now exercise their corporate power, having forfeited it by such and such proceedings.”