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If there be never so many fair branches of liberty planted on the root of a private and selfish interest, they will not long prosper, but must, within a little time, wither and degenerate into the nature Of that whereinto they are planted; and hence indeed sprang the evil of that Government which rose in and with the Norman Con quest. And as at first the Conqueror did by violence and force deny that freedom to the people which was their natural right and privilege, so he and his successors all along lay as bars and impedi ments to the true national interests and public good, in the very national councils and assemblies themselves, which were consti tuted in such a manner as most served for the upholding Of the private interest of their families. Sir harry vane.
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