A92147:658
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. 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.
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:
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,1 and Efficient, under God, of Law and King, then their own safetie must be principally sought, and their safetie must be farre above the King, as the safetie of a Cause, especially of an universall Cause, such as is the People, must be more then the safetie of one, as Aristotle saith, l. 3. polit. alias l. 5. . The part cannot be more excellent then the whole: nor the effect above the cause.