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IT is the duty of a Statesman, espe∣cially in a free State, to hold the Common-wealth to her first frame of Government, from which the more it swerves, the more it declines: which being declin'd is not com∣monly reduced without that extre∣mity, the danger whereof, rather ruines then rectifies. Fundamentall Alterations bring inevitable perils.