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[Chap. 1] A System of Politics Delineated in short and easy APHORISMS.
Publish'd from the Author's own Manuscript.
CHAP. I.
Of GOVERNMENT.
1. A PEOPLE is either under a state of Civil Government, or in a state of Civil War; or neither under a state of Civil Government, nor in a state of Civil War.
2. CIVIL Government is an Art wherby a Peo∣ple rule themselves, or are rul'd by others.
3. THE Art of Civil Government in general is twofold, Na∣tional, or Provincial.
4. NATIONAL Government is that by which a Nation is go∣vern'd independently, or within it self.
5. PROVINCIAL Government is that by which a Province is govern'd dependently, or by som foren Prince or State.
6. A PEOPLE is neither govern'd by themselves, nor by others, but by reason of som external Principle therto forcing them.
7. FORCE is of two kinds, Natural and Unnatural.
8. NATURAL Force consists in the vigor of Principles, and their natural necessary Operations.
9. UNNATURAL Force is an external or adventitious oppo∣sition to the vigor of Principles, and their necessary working, which, from a violation of Nature, is call'd Violence.
10. NATIONAL Government is an effect of natural Force, or Vigor.
11. PROVINCIAL Government is an effect of unnatural Force, or Violence.
12. THE natural Force which works or produces National Go∣vernment (of which only I shall speak hereafter) consists in Riches.
13. THE Man that cannot live upon his own, must be a Servant; but he that can live upon his own, may be a Freeman.
14. WHERE a People cannot live upon their own, the Govern∣ment is either Monarchy, or Aristocracy: where a People can live