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understanding of the centrality and continuity of the principle of rule in all associations.]
[6] “Then Samuel proclaimed the right of the realm ( jus regni) among the people, and wrote it in a certain book.” I Samuel
10:25.
[7]
[In the equivalent chapter (VI) of the edition of 1603, Althusius limited the right of sovereignty to the power of
administration, which he placed under the fundamental right or law of the realm. Here, of course, it is identified with this right or
law. Sovereignty henceforth pertains to the people and their constitution, not merely to the chief administrator and his actions.]
[8] Fernando Vásquez Illustrium controversiarum, I, 47; Bartolus, Commentarii (Digest I, 1, 9; I, 4, 1; I, 1, 5; XII, 6, 64);
Conrad Lancellot, Templum omnium judicum, I, 2; Paul Castro, Commentaria (Digest I, 1, 5).
[9] Digest III, 4, 7, 1.
[10] See Francis Hotman, De antiquo jure regni Gallici, I, 19 and 23; Fernando Vásquez, Illustrium controversiarum, I, 47.
[11] However, Vásquez wrongly rejects this comparison.
[12] Roland a Valle, Consiliorum, I, cons. 1, num. 138; Marc Antony Natta, Consilia, cons. 636 and 640;
Charles Dumoulin, Consuetudines Parisienses, tit. 1, art 8, glos 4, num. 16 f.; Diego Covarruvias, Practicarum quaestionium, 4.
[13] The Commonweale, I, 8. Jacob Bornitius further develops his idea of sovereignty in De majestate politica, I.
[14] See also Deuteronomy 17:18–20; Joshua 1:7 f.; Psalm 119.
[15] Commentarii (Digest IV, 4, 38).
[16] The City of God, IV, 4.
[17] [Althusius seems to make no distinction between lex divina et naturalis and jus divinum et naturale. ]
[18] Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31.
[19] Jacob Bornitius, however, would indiscriminately subordinate the prince to civil law to the extent that such law can be
analogically accommodated to him. De majestate politica, I, 10.
[20] The Commonweale, I, 7 and 8.
[21]
Chapters XVIII and XIX.
[22] Illustrium controversiarum, I, 26 and 45.
[23] The City of God, XIX, 15. [XIX, 14 in the Modern Library edition.]
[24] Timothy 2:2.
[25] Titus 2:12.
[26] Histories, VI, 47.
[27] [ communio: communication; sharing.]
[28]
The rest of this chapter and the whole of Chapters X-XVII.]
[29] Chapter XVIII and following.
[30] [The rest of this chapter is devoted to ecclesiastical communion, and Chapter XXVII to secular communion. Ecclesiastical
matters will be discussed again in Chapter XXVIII, but therein as an element of administration, not as part of the discussion of
communion. Note also that Althusius uses “communication” and “communion” interchangeably]
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