is a convention to fix the constitution, to amend its defects, to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which when they transgress their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.
(* 1) Art. 4.
(* 2) Art. 7.
(* 3) Art. 8.
(* 4) Art. 8.
(* 5) Of these, 542 are on the Eastern shore.
(* 6) Of these, 22,616 are Eastward of the meridian of the mouth of the Great Kanhaway.
(* 7) To _bid_, to _set_, was the antient legislative word of the English. Ll. Hlotharii & Eadrici. Ll. Inae. Ll. Eadwerdi. Ll. Aathelstani.
(* 8) Bro. abr. Corporations. 31.34. Hakewell, 93.
(* 9) Puff. Off. hom. l. 2. c. 6. 12.
(* 10) June 4, 1781.