hom the society hath
authorized thereunto, do chuse, or in another way than what the society
hath prescribed, those chosen are not the legislative appointed by the
people.

Sect. 217. Fourthly, The delivery also of the people into the subjection
of a foreign power, either by the prince, or by the legislative, is
certainly a change of the legislative, and so a dissolution of the
government: for the end why people entered into society being to be
preserved one intire, free, independent society, to be governed by its
own laws; this is lost, whenever they are given up into the power of
another.

Sect. 218. Why, in such a constitution as this, the dissolution of the
government in these cases is to be imputed to the prince, is evident;
because he, having the force, treasure and offices of the state to
employ, and often persuading himself, or being flattered by others, that
as supreme magistrate he is uncapable of controul; he alone is in a
condition to make great advances toward such changes, under pretence of
lawful authority, and has it in his hands to terrify or suppress
opposers, as factious, seditious, and enemies to the government: whereas
no other part of the legislative, or people, is capable by themselves to
attempt any alteration of the legislative, without open and visible
rebellion, apt enough to be taken notice of, which, when it prevails,
produces effects very little different from foreign conquest. Besides,
the prince in such a form of government, having the power of dissolving
the other parts of the legislative, and thereby rendering them private
persons, they can never in opposition to him, or without his
concurrence, alter the legislative by a law, his conse power, neglects
and abandons that charge, so that the laws already made can no longer be
put in execution. This is demonstratively to reduce all to anarchy, and
so effectually to dissolve the government: for laws not being made for
themselves, but to be, by their execution, the bonds of the society, to
keep every part of the body politic in its due place and function; when
that totally ceases, the government visibly ceases, and the people
become a confused multitude, without order or connexion. Where there is
no longer the administration of justice, for the securing of men's
rights, nor any remaining power within the community to direct the
force, or provide for the necessities of the public, there certainly is
no government left. Where the laws cannot