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Show of WAr and PeAet An anti.ent example is brought by 'P Jato in his third de legib,a : Fo: when tHe Houfe of Hercules had bUilt , ~r$os, MejJena and Lacedemo.n , the Kmgs bound to keep the1r Government wweitrhe in the bound of prei.c n' b ed L aws; a~ d whilf\: they did fo, the people were ohh· ced to leave the Kingdom to them an.d ~heir pofl:eritJ, and fuffer none to take tt from them. And to this, not only Kmgs ,. &~tmplA (M~t and their own p~ople ~ave mutually c~· ''*"' ,turt4 in venanted, but Kmgs w1th Other Kmgs , bi!t•riA po,.~- •and one pe~ple with ~nother people, and lorli (tpteNlY~o~ 'Kinos w\th neighbour1g States,and States fabum. VJdt . th., nClahbomind Kinas, have tntred 1oar~ntm Mi.g- Wl o o t>. •d . d h IM11' bi{lDr ,a into Covenant, and promls al to eac S,gflica U~.I f. other tefpe6tivel y • o•- um2. 9 • Cl'allt- · • 8 S-dicorMI11 1. Pontanttm Dan.corum • Llll. .A further explication ofthe lafl nott, about divijion of power ¥tna mixture. YEt are tbey much deceived ' .. wldo r •• think the power of Kin~s d.lVIde I when they will have fame of theb a.Cls . • . . . not accounted firm u nlefs they[, h if. proved by the Senate, ot· fome uc icmbly. For the aets voided for want of fuch approbation, mu~ be n to be cancelled by the K1~gs ow a mand who ordainelil thts by w y . cauti;n, ldt any thing fallaf:ciou~yr~n1; , ned from him {hould pa s un e ·u · ' d deliberate Will· notion of h1s true an Kin~ '1.17 King .Antioch HI the third fent fuch a Boer. ad c. r. reicript to the: MagiH:rates, that rhey duonjt. in Dt~ Dlould not obey hun, tn ca{e he fhould ~et. klut. command any thi ng againH Law: and L.P?ni~a. c. Co11jlant;11 publilhcd tht like, that Or- quaNd9 fmptphans and Widows be not conHreined rawr. Ad~et •. r; to come t.:> the .Emperours Court for '· de '· 1 "' 11 '"- t fl • •t" h E . . bJ.s bO'JflrUtM untce, no not 1 t e mperours re!cnpt [ublt~tis ihewed. Wherefore this cafe is like • to that of tefiaments, which have a clau!e, th&t no later tdhment fiull be of foFce: for this claufe alfo makes it be prefumed, that the later tefiament proceeds not from the true wHI of the maker. Neverthelefs, as this cl:lUie, fo that ocher by the Kings exprefs com-mand and fpe<;ial fignificacion of his later wi11 ll)~Y . be annulled. Again, I · . tio not here ufe the authority of Polybius neither, who refers the RomanCommon-wealth to a mixt kind of Government· ·which, at that tirne, if we refpect no~ the ·doings themtelves but the. right of doing, was meerly popular. For, both the authority of the Senarc, which he refers to an Optimacy, and of the Confuls, whom he wlll have to be like Kings, was fubjed: to the people. The fame may be faid concerning other wri. tcrs of the Polhicks, who c~nceive it .more agr~cable to their defigo, to behold rath~r.the ~~ternal appearance .and daily admmtfiratl~ of affairs, than to weigh the right it felf of the higheft power. . I 3 LIV.True·. |