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3533. GOVERNMENT, Participation in.—[continued].

No Englishman will pretend
that a right to participate in government
can be derived from any other source than a
personal right, or a right of property. The
conclusion is inevitable that he, who had
neither his person nor property in America,
could rightfully assume a participation in its
government.—
Notes on M. Soulés's Work. Washington ed. ix, 299. Ford ed., iv, 306.
(P. 1786)