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SIDNEY'S
Discourses on Government.
x. The words of St. PAUL enjoining obedience to
higher powers, favour all sorts of governments
no less than monarchy
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XI. That which is not just is not law, and that
which is not law ought not to be obeyed
XII. The right and power of a magistrate depends
upon his institution, not upon his name
XIII. Laws were made to direct and instruct magis-
trates, and if they will not be directed, to re-
strain them
XIV. Laws are not made by kings, not because they
are busied in greater matters than doing justice,
but because nations will be governed by rule,
and not arbitrarily
xv. A general presumption that kings will govern
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well, is not a sufficient security to the people. 65
XVI. The observation of the laws of nature is ab-
surdly expected from tyrants, who set them-
selves up against all laws; and he that sub-
jects kings to no other law than what is com-
mon to tyrants, destroys their being
XVII. Kings cannot be the interpreters of the oaths
they take
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