Six books of the commonwealth
By: Jean Bodin ; abridged and translated by M.J. Tooley
Contributors: Tooley, Michael (Michael J.)
Publisher: Seven Treasures Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Lexington, Kentucky]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781438288703
Subjects: Sovereignty; Early works to 1800; Political science
Notes: "Reprint of the 1955 edition."

"Translation of Les six livres de la re publique."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biographical sketch; title: The argument of the six books of the commonwealth; title: Translator's note; title: Bibliographical note; title: The final end of the well-ordered commonwealth; title: Concerning the family; title: Concerning the citizen; title: Concerning sovereignty; title: Concerning feudatory and tributary princes; title: The true attributes of sovereignty; title: Footnotes; title: Of the different kinds of commonwealth; title: Concerning despotic monarchy; title: Concerning royal monarchy; title: Concerning the aristocratic state; title: Concerning popular states; title: The council; title: Officers of state and holders of commissions; title: The magistrate; title: Concerning corporate associations, guilds, estates, and communities; title: Footnotes; title: The rise and fall of commonwealths; title: That changes of government and changes in law should not be sudden; title: Whether the tenure of office in the commonwealth should he [sic] permanent; title: Whether the prince should render justice to his subjects in person; title: How seditions may be avoided; title: Footnotes; title: The order to be observed in adapting the form of the commonwealth to divers conditions of men, and the means of determining their dispositions; title: How to prevent those disorders which spring from excessive wealth and excessive poverty; title: concerning rewards and punishments; title: Whether it is expedient to arm subjects, fortify, and organize for war; title: The keeping of treaties and alliances between princes; title: Footnotes; title: The census and the censorship; title: The revenues; title: A comparison of the three legitimate types of commonwealth, popular, aristocratic, and monarchical, concluding in favour of monarchy; title: That in a royal monarchy succession should not be by election nor in the female line, but by hereditary succession in the male line; title: Concerning distributive, commutative, and harmonic justices, and their relation to the aristocratic, popular and monarchical states; title: Footnotes.