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of Lawes, nor give judgement upon any m ans perſon or eſtate, where no Law hath been before provided; ſave only in calling to an accompt, and puniſhing publique Officers for abuſing or failing their truſt.
7. That no Member of any future Repreſentative be made either Receiver, Treaſurer or other Officer during that imployment, ſaving to be a Member of the Councell of State.
8. That no Repreſentative ſhall in any wiſe render up, or give, or take away any the foundations of Common Right, liberty or ſafety contained in this Agreement, nor ſhall levell mens eſtates, deſtroy propriety, or make all things common.
8. That the Councell of State, in caſe of imminent danger or extream neceſſity, may in each intervall, ſummon a Repreſentative to be forthwith choſen, and to meet, ſo as the Seſſions thereof continue not above forty daies, and so it diſſolve two moneths before the appointed time for the meeting of the next Repreſentative.
9. That all ſecurities given by the publique Faith of the Nation, ſhall be made good by the next and all future Repreſentatives, ſave that the next Repreſentative may continue or make null in part or in whole, all gifts of moneys made by the preſent Houſe of Commons to their own Members, or to any of the Lords, or to any of the Attendants of either of them.
10. That every Officer or Leader of any Forces in any preſent or future Army, or Garriſon that ſhall reſiſt the Orders of the next or any future Repreſentative, (except ſuch Repreſentative ſhall expreſſly violate this Agreement) ſhall forthwith after his or their reſiſtance, by vertue of this Agreement, looſe the benefit and protection of all the Lawes of the Land, and die without mercy.
Theſe things we declare to be eſſentiall to our juſt Freedomes, and to a through compoſure of our long and wofull diſtractions. And therefore we are agreed and reſolved to maintain theſe certain Rules of Government, and all that joyne therein, with our utmoſt poſſibilities, againſt all oppoſition whatſoever.
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