fome kings took upon them to pick what they pleased out of the public acts. Henry the Fifth did not grant us the right of making our own laws; but, with his approba❤ tion, we abolished a deteftable abuse, that might have proved fatal to us. And, if we examine our history, we fhall find, that every good and generous prince has fought to establish our liberties, as much as the most base and wicked to infringe them, END OF DISCOURSES ON GOVERNMENT, CONTENTS. ΤΟ VOLUME II. CHAP. II. SECT. 23.-This is the best government, SECT. 24. Popular governments are less subject to civil diforders than monarchies; manage them more ably, and more eafily recover out of them, Page SECT. 26.-Civil tumults and wars are not the greatest SECT. 27. The mischiefs and cruelties proceeding from SECT. 31. The liberties of nations are from God and ṇature, not from kings, SECT. 12. Page 162 racts made between magiftrates, and the nations that created them, were real, folemn, and obligatory, CHAP. III. SECT, I. Kings, not being fathers of their people, nor excelling all others in virtue, can have no other juft power than what the laws give; nor any title to the privileges of he Lord's anointed, SECT. 2. -- The kings of Ifrael and Juda were under a law not fafely to be tranfgreffed, 177 177 202 SECT. 3. Samuel did not defcribe to the Ifraelit the glory of a free monarchy; but the evils the people fhould fuffer, that he might divert them from defiring. a king, SECT. 4. No people can be obliged to fuffer from their kings what they have not a right to do, 207 -211 SECT. 5. SECT. 6. It is not good for fuch nations as will have kings, to fuffer them to be glorious, powerful, or abounding in riches, SECT. 7. When the Ifraelites asked for such a king as the nations about them had, they asked for a tyrant, though they did not call him fo, SECT. 8. Under the name of tribute, no more is underftood, than what the law of each nation gives to the fupreme magiftrate for the defraying of public charges; 219 225 234 to his name, Page 245 - 256 - 263 - 280 to which the cuitoms of the Romans, or fufferings of · the Jews, have no relation, SECT. 9. Our own laws confirm to us the enjoyment of our native rights, SECT. 10. The words of St. Paul injoining obedience to higher powers, favour all forts of governments, no less than monarchy, SECT. 11. That which is not juft, is not law; and that which is not law, ought not to be obeyed, SECT. 12. The right and power of a magiftrate depends upon his inftitution, not upon SECT. 13. Laws were made to direct and inftruct magiftrates, and, if they will not be directed, to restrain them, SECT. 14. Laws are not made by kings, not because they are bufied in greater matters than doing justice, but because nations will be governed by rule, and not arbitrarily, SECT. 15. A general prefumption, that kings will govern well, is not a fufficient fecurity to the people, SECT. 16. The obfervation of the laws of nature is abfurdly expected from tyrants, who fet themselves up againft all laws: and he that fubjects kings to no other law than what is common to tyrants, deftroys their being, 284 290 298 309 315 325 341 who SECT. 17. Kings cannot be the interpreters of the oaths |