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the Prince however, holding as he does that it is an undoubted and fundamental Principle of the Constitution that all the Powers and Prerogatives of the Crown are vested there as a trust for the Benefit of the People, and that they are sacred only as they are necessary to the preservation of that Poise and Balance of the Constitution which Experience has prov'd to be the true security of the Liberty of the subject, must be allow'd to observe, that the plea of public utility ought to be strong manifest, and urgent which calls for the extinction or suspension of any one of these essential Rights in the supreme
