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bound to observe the forms of justice,

167. to support the authority of the judges, and enforce their decrees,

168. Distributive justice:—distribution of employments and rewards,

169. Punishment of transgressors:—foundation of the right of punishing,

170. Criminal laws,

171. Degree of punishment,

172. Execution of the laws,

173. Right of pardoning,

174. Internal police,

175. Duel or single combat,

176. Means of putting a stop to that disorder,

CHAPTER XIV Third Object of a good Government,— to fortify itself against external Attacks.

177. A nation ought to fortify herself against external attacks,

178. National strength,

179. Increase of population,

180. Valour,

181. Other military virtues,

182. Riches,

183. Public revenues and taxes,

184. The nation ought not to increase her power by unlawful means,

185. Power is but relative, <xxviii>

CHAPTER XV Of the Glory of a Nation.

186. Advantages of glory,

187. Duty of the nation.—How true glory is acquired,

188. Duty of the prince,

189. Duty of the citizens,

190. Example of the Swiss,

191. Attacking the glory of a nation is doing her an injury,

CHAPTER XVI Protection sought by a Nation, and her voluntary Submission to a Foreign Power.

192. Protection,

193. Voluntary submission of one nation to another,

194. Several kinds of submission,

195. Right of the citizens when the nation submits to a foreign power,

196. These compacts annulled by the failure of protection,

197. or by the infidelity of the party protected,

198. and by the encroachments of the protector,

199. How the right of the nation protected is lost by her silence,

CHAPTER XVII How a Nation may separate herself from the State of which she is a Member, and renounce her Allegiance to her Sovereign when she is not protected.

200. Difference between the present case and those in the preceding chapter,

201. Duty of the members of a state, or subjects of a prince, who are in danger,

202. Their right when they are abandoned,

CHAPTER XVIII Establishment of a Nation in a Country.

203. Possession of a country by a nation,

204. Her right over the part in her possession,

205. Acquisition of the sovereignty in a vacant country,

206. Another manner of acquiring the empire in a free country,

207. How a nation acquires the property of a desert country,

208. A question on this subject,

209.

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