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A29939
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The absurdity of that new devised state-principle, (viz.) that in a monarchy, the legislative power is communicable to the subject, and is not radically in soveraignty in one, but in more in a letter to a friend.
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Brydall, John, b. 1635?
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1681
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Wing B5251; ESTC R19834
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