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Six books of the commonwealth /

1438288700

9781438288703

b721984

Six books of the commonwealth /

[Book]

Jean Bodin ; abridged and translated by M.J. Tooley.

[Lexington, Kentucky] :

Seven Treasures Publications,

2009.

252 pages ;

23 cm

"Reprint of the 1955 edition."

"Translation of Les six livres de la république."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The argument of the six books of the commonwealth -- Translator's note -- Bibliographical note -- The final end of the well-ordered commonwealth -- Concerning the family -- Concerning the citizen -- Concerning sovereignty -- Concerning feudatory and tributary princes -- The true attributes of sovereignty -- Footnotes -- Of the different kinds of commonwealth -- Concerning despotic monarchy -- Concerning royal monarchy -- Concerning the aristocratic state -- Concerning popular states -- The council -- Officers of state and holders of commissions -- The magistrate -- Concerning corporate associations, guilds, estates, and communities -- Footnotes -- The rise and fall of commonwealths -- That changes of government and changes in law should not be sudden -- Whether the tenure of office in the commonwealth should he [sic] permanent -- Whether the prince should render justice to his subjects in person -- How seditions may be avoided -- Footnotes -- The order to be observed in adapting the form of the commonwealth to divers conditions of men, and the means of determining their dispositions -- How to prevent those disorders which spring from excessive wealth and excessive poverty -- concerning rewards and punishments -- Whether it is expedient to arm subjects, fortify, and organize for war -- The keeping of treaties and alliances between princes -- Footnotes -- The census and the censorship -- The revenues -- A comparison of the three legitimate types of commonwealth, popular, aristocratic, and monarchical, concluding in favour of monarchy -- That in a royal monarchy succession should not be by election nor in the female line, but by hereditary succession in the male line -- Concerning distributive, commutative, and harmonic justices, and their relation to the aristocratic, popular and monarchical states -- Footnotes.

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Political science, Early works to 1800.

Sovereignty.

Political science.

Sovereignty.

Bodin, Jean,1530-1596.

Tooley, Michael, (Michael J.)

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