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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Present Parliament Justified by the Opinion of the Most Judicious and Learned Hugo Grotius: With Considerations Thereupon, Written for the Satisfaction of Some of the Reverend Clergy Who Yet Seem to Labour Under Som Scruples Concerning the Original Right of Kings, Their Abdication of Empire, and the Peoples Inseparable Right Of
I know but of three ways whereby Empire can be ori ginally acquired. The firfi 15 by', Nature and the Governor a Patriarc/a, who immediately prefides over a Family or City of his own natural Generation, or claims the Go vernment by a Lineal Defcent from him who was the common natural 24mg? Of all his Subjects. To this Title I think thereis no Prmce now in the World lays claim: if there be, let him produce his Pedegree, and prove himfelf the Primogenitur by an Hereditary Line from the natural Fa thcr of h1s People, and I will not farther contend it with him.
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