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the Citizen may perish & the Man remain, for by Society in meant the Union of men, not the men themselves, & nothing is more certain that when a conquest is compleated the Conqueror having no Conqer any plea of natural defence & Self preservation, he also ceases to have a right to kill.

Political Writers have added to this absurdity another full as great, they have Suppos'd the Victor to have the right of reducing the Vanquish'd to Slavery, which can certainly never exist but when it becomes absolutely necessary for the preservation of