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" Six books of the commonwealth / "
Jean Bodin ; abridged and translated by M.J. Tooley.
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BL
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967614
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b721984
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| Main Entry
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Bodin, Jean,1530-1596.
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| Title & Author
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Six books of the commonwealth /\ Jean Bodin ; abridged and translated by M.J. Tooley.
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| Publication Statement
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[Lexington, Kentucky] :: Seven Treasures Publications,, 2009.
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252 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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1438288700
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: 9781438288703
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| Notes
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"Reprint of the 1955 edition."
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"Translation of Les six livres de la république."
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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Sovereignty.
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Political science.
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Sovereignty.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.1
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JC327.B66 2009
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Tooley, Michael, (Michael J.)
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