Excerpt from An Essay on the True Principles of Executive Power in Great States, Vol. 2: Translated From the French Were in exifience prior to the declaration of rights [0 that their profeflion of faith is found, as all words ought to be found, in the relative dependence of things, and in perfee't harmony with the abfolute empire of reali ties. Our political legillators, however, have regarded this declaration of rights as the elli cient caufe of American liberty, and as a uni vcrfal principle of regeneration equally appli lo cable[5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.