Abridged and translated by M. J. TOOLEY
[Published 1955. No copyright asserted.]
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INTRODUCTION |
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I. Biographical Sketch. |
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II. The Argument of the Six books of the Commonwealth. |
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TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. |
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THE SIX BOOKS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
[The chapter numbers in brackets are those of the original French.]
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BOOK I |
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The final end of the well-ordered commonwealth |
[Chapter I] |
1 |
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Concerning the family |
[Chapters II-V] |
6 |
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Concerning the citizen |
[Chapters VI and VII] |
18 |
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Concerning sovereignty |
[Chapter VIII] |
25 |
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Concerning feudatory and tributary princes |
[Chapter IX] |
36 |
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The true attributes of sovereignty |
[Chapter X] |
40 |
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BOOK II |
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Of the different kinds of commonwealth |
[Chapter I] |
51 |
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Concerning despotic monarchy |
[Chapter II] |
56 |
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Concerning royal monarchy |
[Chapter III] |
59 |
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Concerning tyrannical monarchy |
[Chapters IV and V] |
61 |
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Concerning the aristocratic state |
[Chapter VI] |
69 |
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Concerning popular states |
[Chapter VII] |
72 |
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BOOK III |
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The council |
[Chapter I] |
77 |
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Officers of state and holders of commissions |
[Chapters II and III] |
80 |
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The magistrate |
[Chapters IV and V] |
84 |
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Concerning corporate associations, guilds, estates, and communities |
[Chapter VII] |
96 |
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BOOK IV |
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The rise and fall of commonwealths |
[Chapter I] |
109 |
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That changes of government and changes in law should not be sudden |
[Chapter III] |
123 |
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Whether the tenure of office in the commonwealth should be permanent |
[Chapter IV] |
128 |
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Whether the prince should render justice to his subjects in person |
[Chapter VI] |
133 |
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How seditions may be avoided |
[Chapter VII] |
138 |
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BOOK V |
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The order to be observed in adapting the form of the commonwealth to divers
conditions of men, and the means of determining their dispositions |
[Chapter I] |
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How to prevent those disorders which spring from excessive wealth and
excessive poverty |
[Chapter II] |
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Concerning rewards and punishments |
[Chapter IV] |
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Whether it is expedient to arm subjects, fortify and organize for war |
[Chapter V] |
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The keeping of treaties and alliances between princes |
[Chapter VI] |
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BOOK VI |
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The census and the censorship |
[Chapter I] |
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The revenues |
[Chapter II] |
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A comparison of the three legitimate types of commonwealth, popular,
aristocratic, and monarchical, concluding in favour of monarchy |
[Chapter IV] |
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That in a royal monarchy succession should not be by election nor in the
female line, but by hereditary succession in the male line |
[Chapter V] |
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Concerning distributive, commutative, and harmonic justice, and their
relation to the aristocratic, popular, and monarchical states |
[Chapter VI] |
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