# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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This judicious Author confutes theſe dan-
gerous and pernicious Doctrines with great
Clearneſs of reaſoning; and he adds, that no
Prince or ſovereign Power, in his Time acted
upon them, but Philip the Second, qui ſem-
per privatæ Fidei Publicam vim miſcebat.

The incomparable Monteſquieu is worth a
thouſand Authorities " When the Public has
" Occaſion for the Property of a Citizen, it
" ought never to act by the Rigor of Political
" Law; but in thoſe Caſes the Civil Law
" ought to prevail; the Civil Law, which
" looks with the Tenderneſs of a Mother
" upon each Individual, as much as upon
the whole Community.

" If the Political Magiſtrate wants to De L'Eſprit
" make any public Building or new Road, des Loix.
" he muſt make Compenſation; the Public
" is in this Reſpect, as a private Party treat-
" ing with a private Party. It is enough
" that the Public can compel the Citizen
" to ſell his Inheritance, and that it takes
" from him that great Priviledge which he
" holds of the Civil Law, that he cannot be
" forced to alienate his Property.

" This is not an abſtract or ſpeculative
" Notion, but has been the Rule of Practice
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