Patriarch, this name denotes not
having sovereign power from
Adam,

315

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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,

Vid. Supreme.

440

Prerogative, wherein it consists,-

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

&c.

455

War, the state of it described,

347, &c.

he that seeks the life or
liberty of another, is in a state

of it,

ibid.

how it differs from the

state of nature,

348

350

avoiding it, the design of
forming society,
West Indies, some nations there
have no supreme governor un-
less in time of war, 398, 402
Wheat, more fit than most other
things for a common measure
of trade,
46

it is not so useful for ex-
change as money,
47

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