Extract from An Agreement of the People, 1647. Part 4

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Extract C

1. That in all the laws made, or to be made, every person may bee bound alike, and that Tenure, Estate, Charter, Degree, Birth, or place, do not confer any exception from the ordinary Course of Legall proceedings whereunto others are subjected.
2. That as the Laws ought to bee equall, so they must bee good, and not evidently destructive to the safety and well-being of the people.

These things we declare to be our native Rights and therefore are agreed and resolved to maintaine them with our utmost possibilities, against all opposition whatsoever, being compelled thereunto, not onely by the examples of our Ancestors, whose blood was often spent in vaine for the recovery of their freedoms, suffering themselves, through fraudulent accommodations, to bee still deluded…