Quote: to avoid subjection and slavery, some have devised a government of a democratic assembly, a legal system, and administration; too confusing; sovereignty is indivisible and requires the sword

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15. Others, to avoid the hard condition, as they take it, of absolute subjection, which, in hatred thereto, they also call slavery, have devised a government, as they think, mixed of the three sorts of sovereignty. As for example: they suppose the power of making laws, given to some great assembly democratical, the power of judicature to some other assembly, and the administration of the laws to a third, or to some one man; ... And in this estate of government, they think the use of the private sword excluded. ... 16. ... [p. 135] But the truth is, ... the sovereignty is indivisible. And that seeming mixture of several kinds of government, is not mixture of the things themselves, but confusion in our understandings, that cannot find out readily to whom we have subjected ourselves.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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