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Show ofWu 4ni P.eA(e but a continuation of wh:lt was before. ;[he right begun from . the e)ctl:ion cJ th'e Family is continued by lucccffion: Vvhereforc, fucceffion canies down juH fo much, as the fid~ eleCtion did confer. 1 Among the Laoedemoni:m ~~ the King· dom paffed to the Heirs, even after the Ephori were ordained. And of iuch a Kinodom. that is, a pt·ihcipality, faith ~ Pol. 3: 14. ,4ri1f::>t otle h b . h 't ~ • fome of t em go y rrg t qf bloud~ fome by e[e[/;ion : and in the Heroical times mofl: Kingdoms iuGmce were fuch, as befides him, ThucydideJ ~ Lib. r: * notes. On the comrary, the Roman ?:{lltatuih id & Empire, even after all the power both pitmy[. Hali· of Senate and p~ople was ta~cn away, &ct mfta..{ J,l. z. b 11. db 1 n.· wa~ en:owe y e e~~wn . XL VII. The fecoY.d Caution. LEt this.he the fc~ond pution: ·r,i ,. Vide ttti VII.- o11e t ht.ng ~o enqutre of the thmg, . a· cat c.sr • .?rtol~~ nother of the mann~r of holdiHg it: '\~:hieD w~um ad con· 1s a ppliable not o~ly to corpcral. t.hmg~, fu~wd. Pan(. but incorporal aHa. For, ai a F1eld 11 ~~t. I ·U~G1;;• a thing po1fe{fed, fa is a pnffage, an aa, g · 1· .n : • a wa.y. But . thefe things fome hold. br a full right of propriety, others by,a ~1ght ' " ~ef ,fruEt.uary, other by a temporarJ nght; YQu haye ~n So the Rotnan DiCtator, by a tempoeEJmtapmeprloeu or fan rary * n.g ht, ha f.dJ t hc H'1 g l1 e fl: po.~ w·· rn:.de for a and fcime Kings , both :he firH that 1 :' time, in Gre- eleCted and they that ·iucceed them 10 f/'~11!' lib • ..,. a la. vvf~l order by an ufufruCtuary right; ~~ ' ~ 'Tnt jrjl lOJ but [orne Kingi by a full right of pro .. priety, as they that by a jufi Way ·have gotten their Empire, or into w hoie pow-er fome people, to a yoid a greater evi1l, havefo ~iTen up themfelves, that they excepted nothing. Neither do I affent to them, who fay th~ Ditl:a.t-or had not the highell: power, becaufe .it was not perpetual; for the nature of moral things i5 known by the operations : wherefore ·fuch facuhies as have the fame effetl:s are to be called by the fame name. Now, ~he Dictator, within his time, excrcifeth all atls by the fame right *, u a King of,. So mar the the bell right; nor can his a& be ren- people, when dred -void by any other. As for duration, ~hey Fwowb ld.., h h h h • h 1ave a • nU. t at c anget not t e nature ot t e titian made thing : though if the quefl:ion be of dio- Petition to rhc nity, which is wont to be !Hied M~- D1ftacor. jefty, this is greater, no doubt, in him to whom perpetua1 right is given, than to whom temporary right ; becaufe the manner of the Tenure is of moment in .refpeCl: of dignity. And I would have the fame under!l:ood of thefe~ that be~ fore K"mgs come to a~e, or whilll they are hintlrcd by lofs of ~eafon or their li-berty, are appointed Curators of the . Kingdom, fo, that they be not fubje&: to the people, nor, their power revocable. before the . a,ppointed time. An~thcr JUdgement is to b<; made conc~rni~g , thofe th~t ha~e recebre<J ~ l'ight revoca- \ blc at any tune., that ~~ a precarious H 4 ri~hc, |
