The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ...

IV. A solemn War ought to be be∣tween such as have Sovereign Power.

Who they are that have soveraign Power we have already shewed, from whence we may also collect, That he that hath that power but for a part, may for that part make a just War; much more, they who are not Subjects but Confederates, though on Articles very unequal. Thus were all the Wars between the Romans and their Confederates, the Vol∣scians, Latines, Spaniards, and Carthaginians, just; though their Confederacies were made on very unequal terms, as we may collect out of Histories.