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by which it i5 intimated, 1. tbat restraint itseli l&
an evil; 2. that tlli, c\·il ougllt to be overbalanced
by some puhlic ad\-antage; ~. that the proof of thili
ad \yantagf: iics upon the It!gislature; 4-. tllat a ia\X:- being
foun-d to produce no ~cnsiblc Food dfccts, is:a
suffi\:icflr reason fCJr repL'a1illg it~ as aO\·erse and injuriou~
to the rights of a free citizCll., \\·ithout demand.
ing specific e\-idem::e of its bad eifeCb. This maxim
Dlight be remembered \vtth advantage in a revision
of many lav:s of this country; cspec.IalIy of the game
laws; of the poor la\\:-~, so far as they la}r restrictions
upon the poor themseh'es-of the laws against papists
and dissenters: and, alTIOngst people enanloured to
excess and _ icalous of their libert\T, ,J it seems a nlatter
of surprise that this principle has. been so imperfectly
attended to.
rl-'he degree of actual liberty aI\\~a)·s bearing, according
to this account of it, a rev('r:~cd proportion
t~ th~ nUll1b\:r and st.:\"erit)T of tIle t-c.rtrictit;}1S \\"hic!l