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• Translator’s Introduction
• Note On the Liberty Fund Edition
• Preface to the First Edition (1603)
• Preface to the Third Edition (1614)
• I: The General Elements of Politics
• Ii-iii: the Family
• Ii
• Iii
• IV: The Collegium
• V-vi: the City
• V
• Vi
• Vii-viii: the Province
• Vii
• Viii
• IX: Political Sovereignty and Ecclesiastical Communication
• X–xvii: Secular Communication
• X
• Xi
• Xii
• Xiii
• Xiv
• Xv
• Xvi
• Xvii
• XVIII: The Ephors and Their Duties
• Xix–xx: the Constituting of the Supreme Magistrate
• Xix
• Xx
• Xxi–xxvii: Political Prudence In the Administration of the Commonwealth
• Xxi
• Xxii
• Xxiii
• Xxiv
• Xxv
• Xxvi
• Xxvii
• XXVIII: Ecclesiastical Administration
• Xxix–xxxvii: Secular Administration
• Xxix
• Xxx
• Xxxi
• Xxxii
• Xxxiii
• Xxxiv
• Xxxv
• Xxxvi
• Xxxvii
• XXXVIII: Tyranny and Its Remedies
• XXXIX: Types of Supreme Magistrate
• Collation of This Translation With the 1614 Edition
• The Writings of Johannes Althusius

Collation of This Translation with the 1614 Edition

Latin titles are chapter headings of the 1614 edition. Roman numerals refer to chapters, arabic numerals to the numbered sections into which Althusius divided his chapters. Three dots indicate untranslated material within the numbered section they precede and/or follow. However, deletions by the translator of mere references to other writings are not so designated. A section number sometimes will be repeated to indicate additional translated material following a deletion within that numbered section (e.g., §46 …; §46 … in The Family in the collation below). Semicolons indicate the end of segments of the Latin text that have been selected for translation according to the objectives set forth in the Translator’s Introduction, namely, “to retain in Althusius’ own words the complete basic structure of his political thought as it finds expression in the Politica, and furthermore to include the chief arguments by which he clarified his position in relation to those of his contemporaries” .

• I

  The General Elements of Politics

  I De generalibus affectionibus Politicae: § §1–39.
• II–III

  The Family

  II De privata domesticae et naturulis consociationis communicatione, ejusque specie priore, niminum de consociatione conjugali: § §1–6; §12 …; § §13–16; § §37–38; § §40–42 …; §43 …; §44 …; §45 …; §46 …; §46. … III De consociatione propinquorum: § §1–2; … §16 …; §18; § §20–21 …; § §23–24 …; § §27–28 …; §34 …; §35 …; §36 …; §37 …; §42
• IV

  The Collegium

  IV De consociatione collegarum: § §1–7 …; § §8–10; § §12–18; §20; § §22–24; §30 …
• V–VI

  The City

  V De consociatione universitatis, ejusque causis: § §1–11; § §22–24 …; § §25–30 …; … § §34–36; §38 …; § §38–41; § §48–50 …; § §51–56; § §58–62; §64. VI De civitatis speciebus et civium communicatione: § §1–6 …; § §15–17 …; §28 …; § §29–31 …; §32–35 …; § §39–43 …; §44–45 …; § §46–48 …; § §49–52 …
• VI–VIII

  The Province

  VII De juris provincialis communione: § §1–2 …; §3 …; § §4–12. …; VIII De juris provincialis administratione: § §1–3 …; § §3–6 …; §6 …; § §7–8 …; § §9–10; § §12–16 …; § §18–24 …; §24 …; § §27–28; §31 …; § §32–38 …; §40–41 …; §45 …; §47 …; §48; §50 …; §50 …; §51 …; § §51–52 …; § §53–55 …; §56 …; §61 …; § §63–65 …; § §66–70 …; §88 …; § §91–92
• IX

  Political Sovereignty and Ecclesiastical Communication

  IX De jure majestatis ecclesiastico: § §1–4 …; §5; §9 …; §9 …; § §10–13 …; §15 …; §16–22 …; § §23–24 …; §25; § §27–32 …; § §33–34 …; § §35–36 …; § §37–39 …; §39; §41 …; §41 …; §42 …; § §42–45 …; §45
• X–XVII

  Secular Communication

  X De lege atque ejus exsecutione: § §1–3 …; § §4–10 …; §11 …; §11 …; §12. XI De majestatis jure speciali: § §1–5; §7; §13 …; §14 …; §16 …; § §17–18 …; §20 …; §23. … XII De collatione regni ordinaria: § §1–2. XIII De collatione extraordinaria: §1 .… XIV De muneribus regni personalibus: §1; … § §2–3. XV De privilegiis quorundam regnicolarum: § §1–4; §13 …; §14. XVI De protectione universalis consociationis: § §1–2; §4; §17. XVII De cura bonorum corporis consociati: § §2–3 …; §14; §15 …; § §24–25 …; § §26–27 …; § §30–31 …; §54 …; §54 …; § §55–58; §60
• XVIII

  The Ephors and Their Duties

  XVIII De ephoris, eorumque officio: § §1–7 …; §8; § §10–15; § §18–22 …; § §25–32; §40 …; §41 …; §42 …; § §43–44 …; § §47–52 …; § §53–57; §59 …; § §59–61 …; § §62–66; § §68–75; § §83–84 …; §85 …; §86 …; § §86–87 …; § §88–89 …; § §90–91 …; § §92–96 …; § §98–107 …; § §108–110 …; § §111–112 …; §113; § §123–124
• XIX–XX

  The Constituting of the Supreme Magistrate

  XIX De regni, sive universalis imperii, commissione: § §1–2; §4 …; § §5–8 …; § §9–11 …; § §14–18; § §23–24 …; § §25 …; §27 …; §29 …; §30 …; §33; § §35–37; §39; §49; § §70–75 …; § §75–77 …; §77 …; §78 …; § §80–81 …; §83; §85 …; §85 …; §87; §90 …; §90 …; § §92–93 …; §98 …; §101. XX De promissione obsequiorum et homagio: §1; § §5–6 …; §7 …; § §10–11 …; §12 …; §13 …; § §19–21 …
• XXI–XXVII

  Political Prudence in the Administration of the Commonwealth

  XXI De lege, ad quam suscepta Reipublicae administratio est instituenda: §1 …; §2 …; § §5–6 …; § §8–9 …; §10 …; § §11–12 …; §13 …; § §14–17 …; §18 …; §18 …; § §19–20 …; § §20–23 …; § §24–27 …; § §27–28; §29 …; § §30–35 …; §37 …; §40 …; §41. XXII Lex propria Judaeorum, an utilis Reipublicae Christianorum et quatenus abolita: § §3–4. … XXIII De natura et affectione populi: § §1–11; §14 …; §15 …; §16 …; §17 …; §19 …; §20.… XXIV De natura et affectione imperii duplici. § §1–2 …; § §3–4 …; §6 …; §8; §14 …; §15; §17 …; § §17–19 …; §26 …; §27 …; §31 …; §32 …; § §32–34. XXV De auctoritate summi magistratus: §1; §3; § §15–16; § §24–25. … XXVI De usu, experientia, et delectu magistratus: §1; § §3–4; §5 …; §6 …; §8. … XXVII De consiliariis magistratus: §1 …; §2 …; §3; § §6–7 …; §9 …; §27 …; §30 …; § §40–42 …; §43 …
• XXVIII

  Ecclesiastical Administration

  XXVIII De administratione ecclesiastica: § §1–5 …; § §5–7 …; §7 …; §8 …; §9 …; §10 …; § §l3–17 …; §18 …; §19 …; § §23–24 …; § §25–28 …; §29, § §30–32 …; §33; §35 …; §37 …; § §37–39; § §43–46 …; §48–49 …; § §49–50 …; § §51–54 …; § §55–59 …; §63–67 …; § §68–69 …; §72 …
• XXIX—XXXVII

  Secular Administration

  XXIX De sanctione legum et administratione justitiae: §1 …; §2–3 …; § §4–5 …; §9…; §14 …; §15 …; §18 …; §19 …; § §29–30 …; §39 …; §49; § §56–57. XXX De censura: § §1–2 …; §4 …; § §4–6; §15; §24 …; §28 …; §28 …; §29. XXXI De studio concordiae conservandae: § §1–2 …; § §3–8 …; §10 …; §11 …; §13 …; §15 …; §16 …; § §25–26; §70; §75. … XXXII De administratione civili mediorum ad vitae socialis commoditates necessariorum: §1. … XXXIII De conciliis universalibus consociationis universalis: § §1–18 …; §20 …; § §29–30. … XXXIV De cura et tractione armorum tempore pacis: § §1–2. XXXV De cura et administratione armorum tempore belli, et primum de belli susceptione: §1 …; § §2–5 …; § §5–6 …; §6 …; § §7–8 …; § §9–10 …; § §17–18 …; §27. … XXXVI De gestione et administratione belli: §1–3 …; §26. XXXVII De administratione civili rerum publicarum et privatarum: § §1–2 …; § §10–11; §23; §47–48 …; § §49–50 …; §51 …; § §98–99 …
• XXXVIII

  Tyranny Its Remedies

  XXXVIII De tyrannide ejusque remediis: §1 …; §3 …; §4 …; § §5–6 …; §7 …; § §8–9 …; §10; § §28–29; § §46–47 …; §48–51; §53 …; §55 …; § §55–56 …; §57 …; § §58–62 …; § §63–64 …; §65 …; § §67–68 …; § §71–72; §76 …;§ §76–78 …; §112; §123 …
• XXXIX

  Types of Supreme Magistrate

  XXXIX De speciebus summi magistratus: §1 …; § §6–7 …; §8 …; § §9–11 …; § §13–16 …; §18 …; §23; § §30–32; § §45–47 …; §57; §61 …; §62 …; § §83–84 …; § §85–86