A92147:712
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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5. The Dictators power is, 1. a fact, and proveth not a point of1 Conscience. 2. His power was in an exigence of extreme danger of the Commonwealth. The P. Prelate pleadeth for a constant absoluteness above Laws, to the King at all times, and that jure Divino. 3. The Dictator was the Peoples creature; ergo, the Creator, the People, had that sovereignty over him. 4. The Dictator was not above a King: but the Romans ejected Kings. 5. The Dictators power was not to destroy a State: 2. He might be, and was resisted. 3. He might be deposed.
5. The Dictators power is, 1. a fact, and proveth not a point of1 Conscience. 2. His power was in an exigence of extreme danger of the Commonwealth. The P. Prelate pleadeth for a constant absolutenesse above Lawes, to the King at all times, and that jure Divino. 3. The Dictator was the Peoples creature; ergo, the Creator, the People, had that soveraigntie over him. 4. The Dictator was not above a King: but the Romanes ejected Kings. 5. The Dictators power was not to destroy a State: 2. He might be, and was resisted. 3. He might be deposed.
- 1The power of the Dictator no plea for a Prerogative above Law.