ABSTRACT
1. Democracy precedeth all other institution of government. 2. The sovereign people covenanteth not with the subjects. 3. The sovereign people cannot properly be said to do injury to the subject. 4. The faults of the sovereign people are the faults of those private men by whose votes their decrees pass. 5. Democracy in effect an aristocracy of orators. 6. Aristocracy how made. 7. The body of the optimates not properly said to injure the subjects. 8. The election of the optimates belongeth to their own body. 9. An elective king not sovereign in property, but in use. 10. A conditional king not sovereign in property but in use. 11. The word people equivocal. 12. Obedience discharged by release from the sovereign. 13. How such releases are to be understood. 14. Obedience discharged by exile: 15. By conquest: 16. By ignorance of the right of succession.
