Landholders, want of trade a great loss to them,
Laws (human) must not be con- trary to the law of nature or Scripture, 419, note Legislative power, how it is bound- ed, 423 Liberty, how men are by nature in the state of it, 339
wherein it consists, 351 restraint by the law of na- ture consistent with it, 341
how far it is given up, by becoming members of a com- monwealth, 396, &c. Lineal succession, not restored in the kings of Israel, 337 none observed among the rulers of Israel till David's time, 334 Lowndes (Mr.) propounded to have our money reduced to one-fifth less value,
his reasons for lessening the value of money, answered,
Monarchy, how government, at first, generally came to be so, 400. Vid. Absolute Monarchy.
raising in denomination, tends to impoverish a nation, 86
is valued according to the quantity of silver contained in it, 89.-How it comes to be otherwise when clipped, 94
the advantage of it in com- merce above uncoined silver, 88 the cause of melting it down, 90
it is better for the public to be milled than hammered, 91 raising the denomination will not hinder the exportation of it, 91, 93 the value of it should be kept as steady as possible, 103 the proportion should always be exactly kept between that of gold and silver, 97, 99 constant equality of its value, the interest of every country, ib.
making it lighter than it should be is unjust, 109, &c. lowering it, no advantage in selling and letting of land, 112,
Money, it is really valuable ac- cording to its weight, 139.- This must be understood of silver without the alloy, 140 why so much was coined in queen Elizabeth's time, and after, 130 -how it answers all things, 139 the denomination alters not the intrinsic value, ibid. lessening its real value is worse than clipping, 146
its being current only for its weight, is the most effectual way to stop the mischief of clipping, 147 it is necessary in proportion to the plenty of it in neighbouring nations, 148 it will always be of equal value with the same weight of standard silver,
by making it one-fifth light- er, creditors and landlords lose 20 per cent.
168 and labourers also lose by it, unless they have one-fifth more wages,
the change of its name will not alter its value, 177 the insignificancy of lessen- ing, explained by familiar simi- litudes, ibid. if a crown of it (e. g.) be called 75 pence, it will buy no more goods than if it be called 60 pence, 180 lowering its value will not render it more generally use- ful, ibid. it cannot be of the full price of bullion, because of exporting the latter, 184 the true raising it is by put- ting more silver in it, 185
frequent oaths a great oc-
casion of it, ibid. Peru, some of the inhabitants fat- tened and eat children, 254 Political power, what it is, 338,
339 though in some cases it is "absolute," yet not "arbitra- 422 ry," Political societies, how framed, 394
how they began, 400, &c. must be determined by the majority, unless they agree on a greater number, 395 why we have no historical account of their beginning, 397, &c.
Power, paternal, political, and despotical,
Prerogative, wherein it consists,-
434, &c. how and why it is some-
437 the end of it is the pub-
ibid. who may judge concern- ing the right or wrong use of it, 438 if people are injured by it, they may appeal to Heaven, 439 Price of things not always propor- tionable to their usefulness, 41 of foreign commodities ad- vances by being taxed, but that of home ones falls,
58 the reason of this, ibid. Property, how men come to have 361, 367 how it is naturally bound- 368, &c.
- in land and other things, at first acquired by labour, ibid.
how this is a common ad- 364
proportioned with alloy, 142,
Silver, the advantages of its being mixed with copper, in money, ib. is brought in by an overba- lance of trade, 148, 149 is alone the measure of com- merce, and not gold, 151, 152
when it may be said to rise or fall in the value of it, 154, 155 it is always in value accord- ing to its weight, if standard, 156
how unreasonable it is to pretend it to be worth more un- coined, than coined, 171-3
whence uncoined sometimes advances in the price of it, 174 Slavery, it is hard to suppose any one to plead for it in earnest,
Slaves, men are not born such, 213, Usurpation, wherein it consists,
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