ABSTRACT

1. Introduction. 2. A multitude before their union is not one person, nor doth any one act to which every particular man assenteth not expressly. 3. Express consent of every particular required at first to give right to the major part to involve the whole. Democracy, aristocracy, monarchy. 4. Democratical, aristocratical, and monarchical union may be instituted for ever, or for a limited time. 5. Without security no private right relinquished. 6. Covenants of government, without power of coercion, are no security. 7. Power coercive consisteth in not resisting him that hath it. 8. The sword of war is in the same hand, in which is the sword of justice. 9. Decision in all debates, both judicial and deliberative, annexed to the sword. 10. Laws civil defined, the making of them annexed to the sword. 11. Appointment of magistrates and public ministers annexed to the same. 12. Sovereign power incluueth impunity. 13. A supposed commonwealth, where laws are made first, and the commonwealth after. 14. The same refelled. 15. Mixed forms of government supposed in sovereignty. 16. That refelled. 17. Mixed government hath place in the administration of the commonwealth, under the sovereign. 18. Reason and experience to prove absolute sovereignty somewhere in all commonwealths. 19. Some principal and most infallible marks of sovereignity.