Sect. page 60. Other fources, which still amount to the fame thing, 24 ibid. 25 63. The order of fucceffion ought commonly to be observed, 26 64. Regents, 65. Indivifibility of fovereignties, 27 ibid. 66. Who are to decide difputes respecting the fucceffion to a fovereignty, .ibid. 67. The right of fucceffion not to depend on the judgment of a foreign power, 68. States called patrimonial, 69. Every true fovereignty is unalienable, 29 30 31 70. Duty of a prince who is empowered to nominate his fuc ceffor, 32 71. His nomination must be sanctioned by at least the tacit ratification of the people, CHAP. VI. ibid. Principal Objects of a good Government; and firft, to provide for the Neceffities of the Nation. 72. The object of fociety points out the duties of the fovereign: he is bound to procure plenty, 33 73. to take care that there be a fufficient number of workmen, ib. 74. to prevent the emigration of thofe that are useful, 75. Emiffaries who entice them away, 76. Labour and industry must be encouraged, 78. Regulations neceffary in that refpect:- for the diftribution of land, 79. for the protection of husbandmen, 34 ibid. 35 80. Hufbandry ought to be placed in an honourable light, ibid. 81. Cultivation of the foil a natural obligation, Sect. page 87. Obligation to carry on foreign trade, 88. Foundation of the laws of commerce:-right of purchas ing, 89. Right of felling, 38 ibid., ibid. 90. Prohibition of foreign merchandifes, 91. Nature of the right of purchasing, 92. Each nation to determine for herself how the will carry on commerce, ibid. 93. How a nation acquires a perfect right to a foreign trade, 40 94. Simple permiffion to carry on trade, ibid. 41 95. Whether commercial rights be fubject to prefcription, ibid. 96. Imprefcriptibility of rights founded on treaty, 97. Monopolies, and trading companies with exclufive privileges,42 98. Balance of trade, and attention of government in that refpect, 43 99. Import duties, CHAP. IX. Of the Care of the public Ways; and of Tolls. ibid. 106. Duty of the nation or prince with refpect to the coin, ibid. 107. Their rights in that respect, 46 108. How one nation may injure another in the article of coin, 47 109. Exchange, and commercial laws, ibid. CHAP. XI. Second Object of a good Government,-to procure the true Happi 110. A nation is bound to labour after her own happiness, 115. Love of virtue, and abhorrence of vice, to be excited, 116. The nation may hence difcover the intention of her rulers, ib. 117. The nation, or public perfon, bound to perfect her understanding and will, 52 Sect. page 118. and to direct the knowledge and virtues of the citizens to the welfare of the fociety, 119. Love for their country, 120. in individuals, 121. in the nation or ftate itself, and in the fovereign, 122. Definition of the term, " country," 52 53 ibid. ibid. ibid. 123. How fhameful and criminal to injure our country, 124. The glory of good citizens.-Examples, 128. Rights of individuals:- liberty of confceince, 125. Piety, 127. Religion, internal and external, 56 ibid. 129. Public eftablishment of religion:-rights and duties of the 55 ibid. nation, ibid. 130. when there is as yet no eftablished religion, 131. when there is an established religion, 57 ibid. 132. Duties and rights of the fovereign with refpect to religion, 58 133. where there is an established religion, 59 134. Objects of his care, and the means he ought to employ, 60 135. Toleration, ibid. 136. How the prince is to act when the nation is refolved to change her religion, ibid. 137. Difference of religion does not deprive a prince of his crown, 61 138. Duties and rights of the fovereign reconciled with those of the fubjects, ibid. 139. The fovereign ought to have the infpection of the affairs of religion, and authority over thofe who teach it, 62 140. He is bound to prevent the abufe of the eftablished religion, 63 141. His authority over the minifters of religion, ibid. 142. Nature of that authority, 64 143. Rule to be obferved with refpect to ecclefiaftics, 144. Recapitulation of the reafons which establish the fovereign's rights in matters of religion, ibid.--Authorities and examples, ibid. 65 ibid. 145. Pernicious confequences of the contrary opinion, 146. Abufes particularifed.-1. The power of the popes, 66 147. 2. Important employments conferred by a foreign power, 68 148. 3. Powerful fubjects dependent on a foreign court, ibid. 149. 4. Celibacy of the priefts: - Convents, 69 150. 5. Enormous pretentions of the clergy:- Pre-eminence, 70. 151. 6. Independence, immunities, 155. 10. The clergy drawing every thing to themfelves, and interrupting the course of justice, 75 157. 12. Laws and cuftoms inimical to the welfare of ftates, ibid. 165. Neceffary to establish fupreme courts, from whose fentence ibid. 166. The prince bound to obferve the forms of justice, 80 167. to support the authority of the judges, and enforce their ibid. ibid. Third Object of a good Government,-to fortify itself against ex- ternal Attacks. 193. Voluntary fubmiffion of one nation to another, 194. Several kinds of fubmiffion, ibid. 195. Right of the citizens when the nation submits to a foreign power, ibid. 196. These compacts annulled by the failure of protection, 95 197. or by the infidelity of the party protected, 198. and by the encroachments of the protector, 199. How the right of the nation protected is loft by her filence, 96 How a Nation may feparate herself from the State of which he is a Member, and renounce her Allegiance to her Sovereign when 200. Difference between the prefent cafe and those in the pre- 202. Their right when they are abandoned, ibid. 205. Acquifition of the fovereignty in a vacant country, 99 206. Another manner of acquiring the empire in a free country, ib. 207. How a nation acquires the property of a defert country, ib. |