6

Perjury, to be carefully prevented
by law-makers,
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-
ry,"
422
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,
440

Vid. Supreme.

Prerogative, wherein it consists,-

times limited,

434, &c.
how and why it is some-
437
the end of it is the pub-
lic good,
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.

it,

ed,

Property, it was at length settled
by law,

.

371
cannot be rightly taken
from any, without their con-
sent,
422
Providence, the bounty of it, in
making the most useful things
commonly the cheapest, 41

R.

Rebellion, the word sometimes
used for a lawful war, 473, 474
the best means to pre-
vent it is good government,

ibid.
governors may be guilty
of it as well as the governed,
ibid.
Rents, the advantage of paying
them quarterly, or weekly, 27
the causes of their falling,
69, 70
Representatives of the people, how
sometimes very unequal, 432,

433

properly speaking, none of

it is finer than other,

140

proportioned with alloy, 142,

143
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,

212

wherein it consists, 351