A treatise of civil policy

Name: A treatise of civil policy
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London, : 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

[34], 438 p. · 210k words · Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

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Lex, Rex. › Question 25: QUEST. XXV. What force the Supreme Law hath over the King▪ even that Law of the Peoples…

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QUEST. XXV. What force the Supreme Law hath over the King▪ even that Law of the Peoples safety, called, Salus Populi.

QUEST. XXV. What force the Supreme Law hath over the King▪ even that Law of the Peoples safetie, called, Salus Populi.

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The Law of the 12. Tables, is, Salus populi, Suprema lex. The safety of the People is the supreme and Cardinal law, to which all Laws are to stoop. And that from these Reasons:

THe Law of the 12. Tables, is, Salus populi, Suprema lex. The safetie of the People is the supreme and Cardinall law, to which all Lawes are to stoope. And that from these Reasons:

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1. Originally: Because, if the People be the first Author, Fountain,¹ and Efficient, under God, of Law and King, then their own safety must be principally sought, and their safety must be far above the King, as the safety of a Cause, especially of an universal Cause, such as is the People, must be more then the safety of one, as Aristotle saith, l. 3. polit. alias l. 5. [Greek or Hebrew]. The part cannot be more excellent then the whole: nor the effect above the cause.

1. Originally: Because, if the People be the first Author, Fountaine,

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Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

London

Year

1656

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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]

Size

[34], 438 p.

Words

210,399

Catalogue

Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

Text

EEBO-TCP A92147

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1,374

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QUEST. XXV. What force the Supreme Law hath over the King▪ even that Law of the Peoples safety, called, Salus Populi.

QUEST. XXV. What force the Supreme Law hath over the King▪ even that Law of the Peoples safetie, called, Salus Populi.

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