Politics: A Treatise on Government

Ambractia, the government of, changed, 151 Andromadas Reginus, a lawgiver to the Thracian Calcidians, 65 Animals, their different provisions by nature, 14; intended by nature for the benefit of man, 14; what constitutes their different species, 113 Animals, tame, why better than wild, 8 Arbitrator and judge, their difference, 49 Architas his rattle, 248 Areopagus, senate of, 63 Argonauts refuse to take Hercules with them, 93 Aristocracies, causes of commotions in them, 157; chief cause of their alteration, 158; may degenerate into an oligarchy, 79 Aristocracy, what, 78; treated of, 120; its object, 121 Art, works of, which most excellent, 20 Artificers and slaves, their difference, 24 Assemblies, public, advantageous to a democracy, 134 Assembly, public, its proper business, 133 Athens, different dispositions of the citizens of, 149 Barter, its original, 15 Being, what the nature of every one is, 3 Beings, why some command, others obey, 2 Body by nature to be governed, 8; requires our care before the soul, 232 Calchis, the government of, changed, 151 Calcidians, 65 Carthaginian government described, 60 Census in a free state should be as extensive as possible, 131; how to be altered, 162 Charondas supposed to be the scholar of Zaleucus, 64 Child, how to be managed when first born, 235; should be taught nothing till he is five years old, 235; how then to be educated, 236 Children, the proper government of, 22; what their proper virtues, 23; what they are usually taught, 240 Cities, how governed at first, 3; what, 3; the work of nature, 3; prior in contemplation to a family, or an individual, 4 Citizen, who is one? 66, 68; should know both how to command and obey, 73 Citizens must have some things in common, 26; should be exempted from servile labour, 51; privileges different in different governments, 68; if illegally made, whether illegal, 69; who admitted to be, 75; in the best states ought not to follow merchandise, 216 City, may be too much one, 27, 35; what, 66, 82; when it continues the same, 70; for whose sake established, 76; its end, 83; of what parts made up, 113; best composed of equals, 126 City of the best form, what its establishment ought to be, 149; wherein its greatness consists, 149; may be either too large or too small, 209; what should be its situation, 211; whether proper near the sea, 211; ought to be divided by families into different sorts of men, 218 City and confederacy, their difference, 37; wherein it should be one, 27 Command amongst equals should be in rotation, 101 Common meals not well established at Lacedaemon-well at Crete, 56; the model from whence the Lacedaemonian was taken, 56; inferior to it in some respects, 56 Community, its recommendations deceitful, 34; into what people it may be divided, 194 Community of children, 29, 30; inconveniences attending it, 31 Community of goods, its inconveniences, 28; destructive of modesty and liberality, 34 Community of wives, its inconveniences, 27 Contempt a cause of sedition, 146 Courage of a man different from a woman's, 74 Courts, how many there ought to be, 140 Courts of justice should be few in a small state, 192 Cretan customs similar to the Lacedasmonian, 57; assembly open to every citizen, 58 Cretans, their power, 58; their public meals, how conducted 58 Crete, the government of, 57; description of the island of 57 Customs at Carthage, Lacedaemon, and amongst the Scythians and Iberians, concerning those who had killed an enemy, 204, 205 Dadalus's statues, 6. Delphos, an account of a sedition there, 150 Demagogues, their influence in a democracy, 116. Democracies, arose out of tyrannies, 100; whence they arose, 142; when changed into tyrannies, 153; their different sorts, 184, 188; general rules for their establishment, 185; should not be made too perfect, 191 Democracy, what, 79, 80; its definition, 112, 113; different sorts of, 115, 118; its object, 122; how subverted in the Isle of Cos, 152 Democracy and aristocracy, how they may be blended together, 163 Democratical state, its foundation, 184 Despotic power absurd, 205 Dion, his noble resolution, 171 Dionysius, his taxes, 175 Dissolution of kingdoms and tyrannies, 169 Domestic employments of men and women different, 74 Domestic government, its object, 77 Domestic society the first, 3 Draco, 65 Dyrrachium, government of, 101 Economy and money-getting, difference, 17 Education necessary for the happiness of the city, 90; of all things most necessary to preserve the state, 166; what it ought to be, 166; the objects of it, 228, 229; should be taken care of by the magistrate, and correspond to the nature of government, 238; should be a common care, and regulated by laws, 238 Employment, one to be allotted to one person in an extensive government, 136 Employments in the state, how to be disposed of, 88-90; whether all should be open to all, 216 Ephialtes abridges the power of the senate of Areopagus, 63 Ephori, at Sparta, their power too great, 54; improperly chosen, 54; flattered by their kings, 54; the supreme judges, 55; manner of life too indulgent, 55 Epidamnus, an account of a revolution there, 150 Equality, how twofold, 143; in a democracy, how to be procured, 186 Euripides quoted, 72 Family government, of what it consists, 5 Father should not be too young, 232 Females and slaves, wherein they differ, 2; why upon a level amongst barbarians, 3 Forfeitures, how to be applied, 192 Fortune improper pretension for power, 91 Freemen in general, what power they ought to have, 86 Free state treated of, 121; how it arises out of a democracy and oligarchy, 122, 123 Friendship weakened by a community of children, 31 General, the office of, how to be disposed of, 98 Gods, why supposed subject to kingly government, 3 Good, relative to man, how divided, 201 Good and evil, the perception of, necessary to form a family and a city, 4 Good fortune something different from happiness, 202 Government should continue as much as possible in the same hands, 28; in what manner it should be in rotation, 28; what, 66; which best, of a good man or good laws, 98; good, to what it should owe its preservation, 124; what the best, 225 Government of the master over the slave sometimes reciprocally useful, ii Governments, how different from each other, 67; whether more than one form should be established, 76; should endeavour to prevent others from being too powerful-- instances of it, 93; how compared to music, in; in general, to what they owe their preservation, 160 Governments, political, regal, family, and servile, their difference from each other, i Governors and governed, whether their virtues are the same or different, 23; whether they should be the same persons or different, 227 Grecians, their superiority over other people, 213 Guards of a king natives, 96,168; of a tyrant foreigners, 96, 168 Gymnastic exercises, when to be performed, 223; how far they should be made a part of education, 242, 243 Happiness, wherein it consists, 207 Happy life, where most likely to be found, 202 Harmony, whether all kinds of it are to be used in education, 251 Helots troublesome to the Lacedaemonians, 87 Herdsmen compose the second-best democracy, 189 Hippodamus, an account of, 46; his plan of government, 46, 47: objected to, 47, 48 Homer quoted, 95, 116 Honours, an inequality of, occasions seditions, 44 Horse most suitable to an oligarchy, 195 Houses, private, their best form, 221 Human flesh devoured by some nations, 242 Husbandmen compose the best democracy, 189; will choose to govern according to law, 118 Husbandry, art of, whether part of money-getting, 13 Instruments, their difference from each other, 6; wherein they differ from possessions, 6 Italy, its ancient boundary, 218 Jason's declaration, 72 Judge should not act as an arbitrator, 48, 49; which is best for an individual, or the people in general, 98, 99 Judges, many better than one, 102; of whom to consist, 102; how many different sorts are necessary, 141 Judicial part of government, how to be divided, 140 Jurymen, particular powers sometimes appointed to that office, 68 Justice, what, 88; the course of, impeded in Crete, 59; different in different situations, 74 King, from whom to be chosen 60; the guardian of his people 168 King's children, what to be done with, 100 King's power, what it should be 100; when unequal, 143 Kingdom, what, 78 Kingdoms, their object, 167; how bestowed, 168; causes of their dissolution, 173; how preserved, 173 Kingly government in the heroic times, what, 96 Kingly power regulated by the laws at Sparta in peace, 95; absolute in war, 95 Kings formerly in Crete, 58; their power afterwards devolved to the kosmoi, 58; method of electing them at Carthage, 60 Knowledge of the master and slave different from each other, ii Kosmoi, the power of, 58; their number, 58; wherein inferior to the ephori, 58; allowed to resign their office before their time is elapsed, 59 Lacedamonian customs similar to the Cretan, 57 Lacedaemonian government much esteemed, 41; the faults of it, 53-56; calculated only for war, 56; how composed of a democracy and oligarchy, 124 Lacedaemonian revenue badly raised, 56, 57 Lacedaemonians, wherein they admit things to be common, 33 Land should be divided into two parts, 219 Law makes one man a slave, another free, 6; whether just or not, 9; at Thebes respecting tradesmen, 75; nothing should be done contrary to it, 160 Law and government, their difference, 107, 108 Laws, when advantageous to alter them, 49,50, 52; of every state will be like the state, 88; whom they should be calculated for, 92; decide better than men, 101; moral preferable to written, 102; must sometimes bend to ancient customs, 117; should be framed to the state, 107; the same suit not all governments, 108 Legislator ought to know not only what is best, but what is practical, n Legislators should fix a proper medium in property, 46 Liberty, wherein it partly consists, 184, 185 Life, happy, owing to a course of virtue, 125; how divided, 228 Locrians forbid men to sell their property, 43 Lycophron's account of law, 82 Lycurgus gave over reducing the women to obedience, 53; made it infamous for any one to sell his possessions, 53; some of his laws censured, 54; spent much time at Crete, 57; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 Lysander wanted to abolish the kingly power in Sparta, 143 Magistrate, to whom that name is properly given, 136 Magistrates, when they make the state incline to an oligarchy, 61;