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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt:... THE CABINET-COUNCIL: CONTAINING THE CHIEF ARTS OF EMPIRE MYSTERIES OF STATE. CHAP. I. The definition and division of public weals and sovereign states, according to their several species or kinds. A COMMONWEALTH is a certain sovereign government of many families, with those things that are common among them. All commonwealths are either monarchies, aristocracies, democracies. A monarchy is that state where the sovereignty resteth in the person of one only prince. An aristocracy is where some small part of the people have in them, as a body corporate, the sovereignty and supreme power of the whole state. A democracy is where all the people have power and authority sovereign. So doth it appear, that the place and person where the sovereignty resteth, doth cause the state to be either a monarchy, an aristocracy, or popular government. CHAP. II. Of sovereign or monarchical government, xvith its essential marks and specifical differences. SOVEREIGNTY is an absolute and perpetual power in every public state; and he is properly and only a sovereign that acknowledgeth no superior or equal, nor holdeth of any other prince, person, or power, but God and his own sword. The first mark of sovereignty is absolute power and authority to command all subjects in general, and every of them in particular, without consent of any other person or persons, either greater or inferior to himself. The second mark of majesty is authority to make war, and conclude peace, at his pleasure. The third is power to bestow all honours and chief offices at his pleasure. The fourth mark of sovereignty is appellation. The fifth mark and last, is power to pardon all subjects by rigour of law or otherwise, condemned in life, lands, goods, or honours. These powers are not to be...