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The six bookes of a commonweale (1606)

Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596, Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL · London : Impensis G. Bishop · leaf 725

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ale. Seeing then there are but three fortsof Commonweales, that is, when as the whole people, orthe gteateftpart commaunds with abfolute power, orelfethe leaft part of the citifens, or one alone; and that either of the three may bchoneftand commendable, or vicious, wc muft not only (he that which… … Of A Common vv bale, jo J A call it: yet is it not fo bad as Anarchia, where there is no forme of a Commonwcale,no man commands,and no man obeyes. Let vs therefore flic thofe that be vic!ous,andmake choife of the bell of thefe three lawfull gouetnments:and to the end th2t all maybe made plain e, I…

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