ABSTRACT
In every society, and indeed in every age of society, there are private wars as soon as there are families living close together; and neighbors who sue each other today would have taken up arms a few centuries ago. Power, in every religious and political society, is called paternity, and subjects are called children; and this is what made the author of the introduction to the Civil Code say that "magistrates are fathers wherever fathers are magistrates". In the family, which is a society of individuals, the power, minister, and subject are in the individual; in the State, which is a society of families, the power, minister, and subject are often in the family. The families of the public ministry are called notables or nobles. In the family, the persons, laws, functions, duties, and virtues are domestic or private; in the State, everything is public—persons, laws, functions, duties, and virtues.
