Laws to choose Officers.
34. All Overseers and State-Officers shall be chosen new every year, to
The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all the nations in the world. Wherein is declared, what is kingly government, and what is Commonwealths government. By Jerrard Winstanley.
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- The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all the nations in the world. Wherein is declared, what is kingly government, and what is Commonwealths government. By Jerrard Winstanley.
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- Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.
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"The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all the nations in the world. Wherein is declared, what is kingly government, and what is Commonwealths government. By Jerrard Winstanley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66685.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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prevent the rise of Ambition and Covetousness; for the Nations have smarted sufficiently by suffering Officers to continue long in an Office, or to remain in an Office by hereditary succession.
35. A man that is of a turbulent spirit, given to quarreling, and provoking words to his neighbor, shall not be chosen any Officer while he so continues.
36. All men from twenty years of age upwards shall have freedom of voyee to choose Officers, unless they be such as lie under the sentence of the Law.
37. Such shall be chosen Officers, as are rational men of moderate con∣versation, and who have experience in the Laws of the Commonwealth.
38. All men from forty years of age upwards shal be capable to be chosen State Officers, and none younger, unless any one by his industry and mode∣rate conversation doth move the people to choose him.
39. If any man make suit to move the people to choose him an Officer, that man shall not be chose at all that time: If another man perswade the people to choose him who makes suit for himself, they shall both lose their freedom at that time, viz, they shall neither have a voyce to choose another, nor be chosen themselves.