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Sioussat's The English Statutes in Maryland, 1903
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88 The English Statutes in Maryland. [552
p, 10 very acceptable; "A State o{ Equality, (says that great Man)
" wherein all Power and jurisdiction, is reciprocal; no one having
"more than another: There being nothing more evident, than that
'' Creatures, of the same Species, and Rank, promiscuously born, to
" all the same Advantages of Nature, and the Use of the same Fac-
" ulties, should also be Equal, One, amongst another, without Sub-
ordination, or Subjection; unless, the Lord, and Master of them
"All. should, by any manifest Declaration of his Will, set One
" above Another, and confer on Him. by an evident and clear Ap-
" pointment, an undoubted Right, to Dominion, and Sovereignty.t
Can any Thing be more evident, than that All the Subjects, of the
same Prince, living within his Dominions, adhering to their Alle-
giance. and in a Word. behaving themselves, as dutiful and loya!
Subjects ought, and promiscuously born under the same Obligation
of Allegiance, Obedience, and Loyalty to their Prince, and to the
same Right of Protection, should also be entitled to the same Rights,
and Liberties, with the rest of the Subjects, of the same Prince, of
their Degree, and Condition. Or can anything be more clear, than
thar Subjects, having an equal Right to Priviledges, must also have
an equal Right to the Laws, made to create or preserve each Privi-
leges? And without which, they cannot be preserved; unless the
supreme Power, by any manifest Declaration, distinguish some Sub-
ject from Others, by depriving some, of their Privileges; and con-
tinuing them to Others.
If the People of Maryland are thus unhappily distinguished, they
must submit. But if on the contrary, They have a Right, in com-
mon with the rest of their Fellow Subjects, to English Liberties,
and Privileges. 'Tis absurd to say, They have not a Right to the
Means of preserving them.
Locke of Civil Government, Chap. 2. Sect. 4.
P." By what hath been, and will be said: I hope, that the Right of
the People of Maryland, to the Benefit of the Laws of England, is,
and will be evidently proved; and that it will be likewise proved,
that That Benefit, is of infinite Advantage, to any People, who re-
ceive the same, in the full Extent of it. If so, it will necessarily
follow, that to deprive the People, of the Advantages, derivative
from the Laws of their Mother Country, would be greater Injus-
tice, and ^Oppression, than they could suffer in any particular, of
indeed in many Instances; by so much, as the necessary, and only

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