PART Ⅰ. Which treats of the original and nature of civil fociety, of fovereignty in general, of its peculiar character, modifications, and effential parts. 1
CHAP. Ⅰ. Containing fome general and preliminary reflections, which ferve as an introduction to this and the following parts. ibid. 7
CHAP. Ⅱ. Of the original of civil focieties in fact 7
CHAP. Ⅲ. Of the right of convenience with regard to the inftitution of civil fociety, and the neceffity of a fupreme authority; of civil liberty, that it is far preferable to natural liberty, and that the civil ftate is of all human fates the moft perfect, the moft reasonable, and confequently the natural ftate of man. 11
CHAP. Ⅳ. Of the effential conftitution of ftates, and of the manner in which they are formed 22
CHAP. Ⅴ. Of the fovereign, fovereignty, and the fubjects 31
CHAP. Ⅵ. Of the immediate fource, and foundation of fovereignty 37
CHAP. Ⅶ. Of the effential characters of fovereignty, its modifications, extent, and limits 44
1. Of the characters of fovereignty. ibid. 49
2. Of abfolute fovereignty 49
3. Of limited fovereignty 53
4. Of fundamental laws 55
5. Of patrimonial, and ufufructuary kingdoms 62
CHAP. Ⅷ. Of the parts of fovereignty, or of the different effential rights which it includes 64
PART Ⅱ. In which are explained the different forms of government, the ways of acquiring or lofing fovereignty, and the reciprocal duties of fovereigns and fubjects. 69
CHAP. Ⅰ. Of the various forms of government. ibid. 82
CHAP. Ⅱ. An effay on this queftion, Which is the beft form of government? 82
CHAP. Ⅲ. Of the different ways of acquiring fove-reignty 97
1. Of conqueft 98
2. Of the election of fovereigns. 101
3. Of the fucceffion to the crown 103
CHAP. Ⅳ. Of the different ways of lofing fovereignty 112
CHAP. Ⅴ. Of the duties of fubjects in general 116
CHAP. Ⅵ. Of the inviolable rights of fovereignty, of the depofing of fovereigns, of the abufe of fove-reignty, and of tyranny 122
CHAP. Ⅶ. Of the duty of fovereigns. page 134
PART Ⅲ. A more particular examination of the effential parts of fovereignty, or of the different rights of the fovereign, with refpect to the internal adminiftration of the ftate, fuch as the legiflative power, the fupreme power in matters of religion, the right of inflicting punifhments, and that which the fovereign has over the Bona Reipublicae, or the goods contained in the commonwealth. 152
CHAP. Ⅰ. Of the legiflative power, and the civil laws which arife from it. ibid. 167
CHAP. Ⅱ. Of the right of judging of the doctrines taught in the ftate: Of the care which the five-reign ought to take to form the manners of his fubjects. 167
CHAP. Ⅲ. Of the power of the fovereign in matters of religion 171
CHAP. Ⅳ. Of the power of the fovereign over the lives and fortunes of his fubjects in criminal cafes. 182
CHAP. Ⅴ. Of the power of fovereigns over the Bona Reipublicae, or the goods contained in the commonwealth. 202
PART Ⅳ. In which arc confidered the different rights of fovereignty with refpfect to foreign ftates; the right of War, and every thing relating to it; public treaties, and the right of ambaffadors. 220
CHAP. Ⅰ. Of war in general, and firft of the right of the fovereign, in this refpect, over bis fubjects. ibid. 229
CHAP. Ⅱ. Of the caufes of war 229
CHAP. Ⅲ. Of the different kinds of war 248
CHAP. Ⅳ. Of thofe things which ought to precede war 264
CHAP. Ⅴ. General rules to know what is allowable in war 273
CHAP. Ⅵ. Of the rights which war gives over the perfons of the enemy, and of their extent and bounds. 279
CHAP. Ⅶ. Of the rights of war over the goods of an enemy 290
CHAP. Ⅷ. Of the right of fovereignty acquired over the conquered 305
Of Neutrality 312
CHAP. Ⅸ. Of public treaties in general 314
CHAP. Ⅹ. Of compacts made with an enemy 325
CHAP. Ⅺ. Of compacts with an enemy, which do not put an end to the war 334
CHAP. Ⅻ. Of compacts made, during the war, by fubordinate powers, as generals of armies, or other commanders 343
CHAP. ⅩⅢ. Of compacts made with an enemy by private perfons 347
CHAP. ⅩⅣ. Of public compacts which put an end to war 350
CHAP. ⅩⅤ. Of the right of ambaffadors 360