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