The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace with annotations, III parts, and memorials of the author's life and death.

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Title: The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace with annotations, III parts, and memorials of the author's life and death.
Author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. Warren, for William Lee ...,; 1655.
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XL. Wherein consisteth civil Power.

THe moral faculty of Governing a City * 1.1, which is stiled by the name of civil Power, is described in Dionysius Halicarnessensis by three especial notes, a right of creating Magistrates, a right of making and abolishing Laws, * 1.2 a right of decreeing War and Peace; else∣where he addes a fourth, Courts of ju∣stice; and elsewhere the care of Reli∣gion, and calling of assemblies. Others * 1.3 express themselves otherwise. But if one will make an exact partition, he shall easily find all that pertains hither, so that nothing may be wanting or su∣perfluous. For the Governour of a Ci∣ty governs it partly by himself, partly by others. By himself he is either con∣versant about universals, or about sin∣gulars.

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About Universals, by making and abolishing Laws, as well about sa∣cred (so far as the care of them belongs unto the City) as about civil affairs. This art is call'd by Aristotle archi∣tectal. The singulars about which he is * 1.4 conversant, are either directly publick, or private, yet in order to the publick. Directly publick are Actions, as of Peace, War, Leagues; or Things, as Tributes and the like: Wherein is comprehen∣ded also that eminent Dominion, which the City hath over the Citizens and their estates for the publick use. The Art a∣bout these is exprest in Aristotle by the general name political or civil, and * 1.5 is also called the Art of consultation. Private things are such as are contro∣verted between party and party, which it concerns the publick quiet to be de∣termined by publick authority. And this Art is by Aristotle termed judicial. The things done by another, are dispat∣ched * 1.6 either by Magistrates, or by other procurators, to which number Embas∣sadors are to be referred. And in these particulars consisteth the civil power.

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* 1.1

Or, Com∣mon wealth.

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* 1.2

Servius ad 1. Aen. Omni di∣tione. Rectius omni quam omnis: ut signi∣ficet omni pote∣state, pace, le gibus, bello. Lib. 4. Lib. 7. Lib. 2.

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Thucydides civitatem, quae vere civitas est, vooat, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

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