A92147:141
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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QUEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments. Affir. p. 384. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments hath divers considerations, in which each one may be less or more convenient. p. 384, 385. Absolute Monarchy is the worst of Governments. p. 385. Better want power to do ill as have it, ibid. A mixture sweetest of all Governments, p. 387. Neither King nor Parliament have a voice against Law and reason, ibid.
QVEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments. Affir. p. 384. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments hath divers considerations, in which each one may be lesse or more convenient. p. 384, 385. Absolute Monarchy is the worst of Governments. p. 385. Better want power to doe ill as have it, ibid. A mixture sweetest of all Governments, p. 387. Neither King nor Parliament have a voyce against Law and reason, ibid.
QUEST. XXXIX. Whether or no, any Prerogative at all above the Law be due to the King? Or if jura majestatis be any such Prerogative? Negatur, p. 389. A threefold supreme power, ibid. What be jura regalia, p. 390, 391. Kings confer not honours from their plenitude of absolute power, but according to the strait line and rule of Law, justice, and good deserving, ibid. The Law of the King, 1 Sam. 8. 9, 11. p. 392, 393. Difference of Kings and Judges, ibid. The Law of the King, 1 Sam. 8. 9, 11. No permissive Law such as the Law of divorce, p. 394. What dominion the King hath over the goods of the subjects, p. 395, 396, 397.
QUEST. XL. Whether or no, the people have any power over the King, either by his Oath, Covenant, or any other way? Affirmed, p. 398, 399. The people have power over the King, by reason of his Covenant and Promise, ibid. Covenants and promises violated, infer Coaction, de jure, by Law, though not de facto, p. 399, 400. Mutual punishments may be, where there is no relation of superiority and inferiority, p. 399, 400, 401. Three Covenants made by Arnisaeus, ibid.