If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.
Give credit to whom credit due.