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Show 84 Of WAr AtJJ 1tMi gul4rJ. About Univerfals, by making and abolilhing Laws, as well about fa· cred (fo far as the care of them belongs unto the City } as about civil affab. This art is call'd by .e.Ari.fl:or/e archi· i,~'IMf·r"''· teft~tl. The fingularsabout which he is convcrfant, are either direa\y publick1 . or pl'ivate, yet in or~er to the pub lick. Direflly pub lick_. are ACl:ions, as of Peace, War, Leagues; or Things, as Tributes and the like : Wher~in is comprchen· ded alfo that eminent Dominion, which the City hath over the Citizens and their c!lates for the publick ufe. The Art a• ...,.,"";, '•).au~ bot~t th 1 efe is expreR:l i~ aA 1 rift~tt~1 by thde .,u. genera name po ittca or CIYI , an is alfo called the Art of confultation. Priv~tt6 things are fuch as are coiltro· verted between party .and party, which it concerns the publick quiet to be de· termined by publick authority • And ~ this Art is by Ariffotle termed. jud!cia/. t.lf!l. • The things done hy another, are d1fpat· ched eittler by Magi!lrates, or by other ~rocurators, to which number Embai· iadors are to be referred. And in thefe particulars confifteth the ~ivil power. . .:-' XLI. Wh11t Powtr is Higheft. T Hat is call' d the HigheH Power whofe a6b arc not under the right of another, foasto be made void at the pleafure of another humane wm. When 1 The Flf}l . I f~y of AnDther, 1 exclude him who en .. joyeth the hifhell Power (who may c~ange his own will) as alfo his Suc-celfor *,who enjoyeth the fame right, • Cachrran and therefore hath the very fame pow· Dccif.pcdcm~ er: ~et us now f~e, ip what fubject 1Jf.nuna,6. thls htq~efl power IS. There is a ~om-min fubjeel, and a proper fubjeel : ai the .:ommon fubjeet of Jig ht is the body the proper is the eye ; fo the commo~ fubje~of the higheft .P,ower i~ a City, that JS, a perfeel fociety. W c exclude therefore people or Countries that have fielded up themfelves, or fallen to the aominiotl of another people ' fuch as were the Provinces of the Romans : for thefeare not by themfelves. a City, as now we take the word, but leis wor-thy members of fome great City , as. fervants are members of the family ~gain i~ comes to pafs, that feveral Na~ t1ons or Countries have cme and the fame head, which do neverthelefs every one make ~P ~ perfe~ fociety by thcm-felves : for It IS not m the mor~tl body as iq the natural; in the. natural, tme cannot be the head of feyeral bedies • but in.them~ral, the fame perfon, confi: dercd m a ~Ivers relatwn, may be the head .ot bod1es many and difHnct. Wher~ of this is a ~ertai~ Argument, that the ~oyal Family bemg ex{Hna, the Em- Vi&. de ju. pue ret~rns to every people feverall y. belli, n. 7. So alfo It may happert, that more Ci- . G 3 ties |
