for when their successors, managing the government with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent, and make them the standard of their prerogative, as if what had been done only for the good of the people was a right in them to do, for the harm of the people, if they so pleased; it has often occasioned contest, and sometimes public disorders, before the people could recover their original right, and get that to be declared not to be prerogative, which truly was never so; since it is impossible that any body in the society should ever have a right to do the people harm; though it be very possible, and reasonable, that the people should not go about to set any bounds to the prerogative of those kings, or rulers, who themselves transgressed not the bounds of the public good:
Honek sarritan herriaren bat-bateko erantzuna eragin du, batzuetan anabasa publikoa ere sortu duelarik, harik eta herriak bere jatorrizko eskubideak berreskuratzea lortu eta inoiz benetan prerrogatiba izan ez zena deuseztatzea lortzen duenera arte. Ez baita posible inork herriari kalte egiteko eskubidea izatea; oso litekeena bada ere, baita zentzuzkoa ere, herriak ardurarik ez hartu izana mugak jartzeko guztion onaren mugak gainditzen ez zituzten errege eta gobernariei.