The Potowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1790-1798, 1796-10-27

can CosHaa,ioa' How this itands will beit be Teen
oy I..l., attention to The OF his obiervatl-
ons. l will, therefore, take view OF few OF
them, and by comparing others iherewlth, thinR
they will thew TO all upprt Judletd MINDS, the m
con1lency of iuch confli uclion' Nay, 10 Tar
from bearing iuch al interpretation DtIieNe thaE
very book, will, on coie examination, be found tta-
ken collectively TO be nothing more nor ies, than
a pane eyrie on The Psith Go. ernment ? be truth
which let US lee. In his preface, page 10, he ex@
preises hinict thus. ~ he r,co The eUeH tOra, aud
a6lr, acquire influence among the people, that
will loon be 100 much for ilmple honelty sno plan
ienie in houie OF re reentathes, III, mott Hgf-
OF them mutt, therefore, be ieparalsa nom lac
mai, and placed by thtmielves in ienate. WnaE
lie mean BY Separating them from The mails, un-
LET'S it be TO, M Hou. of Lords, or one iimilar
But mark what tollows--tage IS, he proceeds, fat
making olher obervalions The lone puT Portl
-" "A government OF laws might be juitly denomi-
mated repuDnc, limited monarchy, therefore,
especially when limited 10y Two pendsnt bran
ches, ariitocraticai and denocraticai, power IN
the contribution, may with itrlct Propfiey be CAL
led by that name" Thus, then, he oe fines The Bf-
tnh government TO be republic Hence his adj
vocaes declare him itiekler Tor republcan1im
ihall next endeas our 10 prove his entire approa
baton Of. and tondnets for the contribution OF Eng
land, although he paises many encomiums on the
American itate governmentsl Speaking OF the in
nabItants OF Maisachuietts, page no ne isys,-
1beie Iources OF iuequal,ty, which are common
every people, and can never be altered by any, be-
they founded in the contribution OF ma
ture. This natural arilocracy anioug mankind has
dilated on oecauie, it tact essential 10 be
coDtldered in the inittution OF government it is
Dody OF men which conta ms the greatet collection
of Virtues and abfifiet in free government-ls Tho
bngbtF gtoy OF he nation, and may all
ways made the g'easf blTng of tociety, # ir%be
judiciouiy managed III the .on.titution bot, if ir
II al he ir
may be added At never tails be the deltruction Of
the coniinonwea lth - Page tip. Z here is yee
but one expedient dicovered avail the fosiety Of
the benefits from this body of men, which they are
capable OF atfording, and at the fame time pre-
vent them from undermining or invading the pub
lie liberty, and that is TO ib,rzv them all eair
the mott remarkable of them into assembly to- :
gethcr in the leg failure; keep all the executive
power out OF their hands BODY erect a
hrit magittrate them, invetted with he wIioe
executive authority to make them dependent on
that executive magtrate for all public executive
employments to give that hrit magiltrate a mega
tive on the legl0ature, by which he may defend
both himielf and the people from all their enter
prizes in the leg failure and TO erect the other
tide of them an mpregnable barrier againit them in
Houfe of Commons, fairly, fully, and adequately
Representing the people, who ihal have the power
both of negatving all their attempts at encroach-
ments in the Legislature, and of Withholding, both
from them and the eregva all iuppes by which they
may be paid for their ervices in executive Offices,
the public fervices carried the detri-
ment of the nation. Again, ipeakng Of different
orders, page TT, " The hii'ores and writings of
the greateIl writer's ferve to thew The utility and
neceiGty of different orden 9fnen, and of equlli-
brium of powers and privileges. Page zoS. he
Jays" Let Us proceed then to make a few obiervo-
tons upon the dicouries OF Plato and Pobius, and
Thew how forcbly they prove the necefity of per-
mahent laws, to refrain the Paa,ons and vices of
men, and TO leeure to the cRiz:ns the ble1ings of
iocety in the psaceable Enjoyment of their lives,
liberties, and properties ard the neceAity Of dif-
ferent o,de,, Of men, with various and otpefte pow
ers prtregAnve' and prfvasgHto watch one another,
TO balance each other and compel each Other, at
all times, to be real guardians OF the laws
Speaking of Rome. page aa4, he proceeds, " From
this example, as from all Others, it appears, thar
there can be no government of laws without a ba-
lance, and that there be no balance withour
three orders, and that three orders can never
balance each other, unefs each in its department a
independent and abolute."
In another part of his book, he fay, " the chief
nhaeitrare ihould be in the form of King And
to crown all, when he tpeaks OF England in ?arteu-
lar he burits forth with leeming rrsnPcrr IN theis
words, page 70, )" only contend thar the Engllh
Contribution is in theory the mott ftopend'ons "a
brio of human mention boi Tor the .dJottmt ut OF
the balance and the prevention of us v,bfa"onsS