Excerpt from Discourses on Government, Vol. 1 of 3: To Which Is Added, an Account of the Author's Life and a Copious Index
Saar. 1. That it is natural for nations to govern, or to choose governors; and that virtue only gives a natural preference of one man above another, or reason why one should be chosen rather than another 1.
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