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Show 2:4 miz'.‘ ofC‘o MMoNvWEALTH. (714de The Obligation of Subjects to the Soveraign, is underflood to ‘ In what Cn- ' laft as long, and no longer, than the power lafieth, by which he is fi'r thfell: to protect them. For the right men have by Nature to able Var: ahfalz/ed of their c6:- protect themfelves, when none elfe can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquiihed. The Soveraignty is the Smile of the dirnce to t/vir Sove- Common-wealth;whichonce departed from the Body, the memrmgn. bers doe no more receive their motion from it; The end of Obe- dience is Protection-,whieh, wherefoeVer a man feeth it, either in his own, or in anothers fwordg Nature applyeth his obedience to it, and his endeavour to maintaine it. And though Soveraigntyi in the intention ofthem that make it, be immortall; yet is it in its own nature, not only fubjecr to violent death, by forreign war, blit alfo through the ignorance, and paflions of men, it hath in it, from the very inftitution, many feeds of a naturall mortality, by Inteitine Difcord. In cafe of Captain}. Ifa Subject be taken prifonerin war g or his perfon, or his means oflife be within the Guards ofthe enemy, and hath his life and cororall Libertie given him, on condition to be Subject to the Victor, e hath Libertie to accept the condition ,and having accepted it, is the fubjeét of him that took him, becaufe he had no other wa to szl " o/c o MM'ON-WE A L TH. . cram. rs; which if helhave not means to nan1e, he is and Office 33;:er to approve thofe , which he himfitlf had formerly appornted. , . C H A P, XXII. Of 5 Y s T E M E s Suéjeél, Politicall, and @Tilmte. Aving fpoken of the Generation, Iiorme, and Power of 21 Common-wealth, I am in order to {peak next of the parts thereof. And firfl of Syfiemes, which refémble the fimilar parts, or Mufcles ofa Body naturall. By Srsr an E s -, hinder-{land any numbers of men joyned in one Intereii, or one Bufineife. Of which, fome are Regular, and fome Irregular. Regal" are thofe, where one Man, or Affembly of men, is conflatuted itepre fentative of the whole number_ All other are Irregular. ofRegular, fome are Alfolutegnd Independent, fubjeét to none Of which I have fpoken already in the s. laitprecedent chapters. Others are Dependent; that is to fay, Subordinate to fome 5.0V? raiEn Power, to which every one, as alfo their Reprefentative is in cafe the Sovernign and his heir-es 5 His Subjeéts‘returne to the a folute Libertie of Na- by Subjects amongfl themfelves, or by authoritie from a firanger. Mfr (gift/.1: turc; becaufe, though Nature may declare who are his Sons and government who are the nerefl of his Kin; yet it dependeth on his owri will, from litmfelf (as hath been {aid in the precedent chapter,) who {hall be his Heyr. For no authority derived from forraign power, Within the Domie m: ' nion of another, is Publique there, but Private. 1 unlawful/ fome Lawful]; are fome Syflemes, Private of And it: In cafe of Bnmflmmt. _ ‘n eff. 5 6f Syftemes fubordinate, fome are Politim/I, and fomePriq/ate. Political! (otherwil‘e Called Eadie: Polithue, and Perfonr an 14117,) are thofe, which are made by authority from the ‘Soveraign Power ofthe Common-wealth. Private, are thofe, which are conflituted Iftherefore he will have no Heyre, there is no Soveraignty. nor Sub- men/l, are thofe which are allowed by the Common-wealth : all jeétion, The cafe is the fame, if he dye without known Kindred, other are llnldwfull. Irregular Syitemes, are thofe which having and without declaration of his Heyre. For then there can no Heirc no Reprel‘entative, confift only in concourfe of People ; which if not forbidden bythe Common-wealth, nor made on evrll defigne, be known, and con fequently no Subjection be due. Ifthe Seycraign Baniih his Subject 5 during the Banilhment, he is not Subject. But he that isfent on a meifage, or hath leave to tra- 77,, 4m," fim of". flemer of' People. but their own Reprefentative: iuch are only Common-wealths; preferve himfelf. The cafe is the fame, if he berdeteined on the amt: termes,inaforreign country. But if a man be held in prifon, or bonds, or is not united with the libertie of his bodie; he cannot be underflood to be bound b Covenant to fubjeétion; and therefore may, ifhe can, make his e cape by any means whatfoever. If a Monarch (hall relinquifh the Soverai nty, borh for himfelf, He)". m‘ (i‘iich as are conflux of People to markets, or ihews, or any other harmelefle end, ) are Lawfull.But when the Intention is evrll, or (if veil, is {till Subject ,but it is, by Contract between Soveraions, not by venue of the covenant of Subjecrion, For whofoever entireth in- to anothers dominion, is Subjecr to all the Laws thereof ; unleile the number he confide rable ) unknown, they are Unlawfull. In Bodies Politique, the power of the Reprefentative is alwaies in all 34- A light? aprivilege by the amity of the SoveraignS, or by fpeciall er Soveraign. For Power Unlimited, is abfolute Soveraignty; And :2" FEW"; "J Limited: And that which prelci'iberli the Limits thereof, is the Pow- ditIPD/Itiqmt the Soveraign, in every Commonwealth, is the abfolute Repre- [mimiirri In Mfr the if a Monarch fubdued by war,render himfelf Subject to the Victor; So-tierur‘qn his SubjeCts are delivered from their former obligation and become obliged to the Victor. But ifhe be held prifoner orahave not the liberty or'his own Body , he is not underflood to have given away the Right of Soveraigntie;and therefore his Subjects are obligedto yield obedience tothc Ma ifirates formerly placed govt!" fentative of any part of them, but (0 far forth, as he {hall give leave : And to give leave toa Body I'olitique of Subjects,to have an abfob mng nor in their own name, but in his. For, his RiOht remain'ingfihc quellionis only ottlie Adminifirationgthat is to fay, of the Magi{hates raign cannot be underflood todoe, by any Grant, that does opt nut/let bim{t/j- Sub/‘(ll tn anal/an; tentative of allthe fubjects ; and therefore no other, can be RepreJ L mind. lute Reprefentative to all intents and purpofes, were to abandon the iipvernmcnt offo much of the Commonwealth, and to divide the ominion, contrary to their Peace andvDefcnce, which the Sove-' plain y |