And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage, and thereby come to have a distinct interest from the rest of the community, contrary to the end of society and government:
Bestalde, giza ahultasunari-botereari gogor atxikitzeko duen joerarekin-tentazio handiegia suerta dakioke legeak egiteko boterea duten pertsonek euren esku izatea legeak betearaztekoa ere. Egiten dituzten legeak betetzetik salbuetsi ditzakete euren buruak, eta legea molda lezakete, bai egikeran eta betearazpenean, euren on propiorako; hortaz, euren interesak erkidegoarenaren kontrakoak izan litezke, gizartearen eta gobernuaren aurkakoak.