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By that same [offering] may sovereignty and vital force be established upon him;

Tvaṣṭṛ with form, Savitṛ with his impulsion, Day with Mitra, Night with Varuṇa, Pūṣan with nourishments, Bhaga with his share and apportionment — may they cause this kingdom to flourish, rich in offspring.

Agni with his brilliance, Sūrya with his light, Dyaus with his greatness, the atmosphere with its expanse, the directions with their prospects, the earth with her waters — may they cause this kingdom to flourish, rich in offspring.

he springs upon men with his power and rules arbitrarily with his violence;

the vizierate is the furthest of offices from bearing one who is unfit for it, because the vizier stands to the king in the place of his hearing, his sight, his tongue and his heart, since the king is behind closed doors, veiled from eyes — that he may preserve him in his properties and cover over his flaw in his deeds;

how many a trusting man is shamed — until I was tried, and became myself the trusting and shamed one

Aristotle, in the fourth book of his Politics, comprises the sovereignty of a state in the exercise of the deliberative, executive, and judicial powers.

Now the acts of the sovereign executive power of a directly public kind are the making of peace and war and treaties, and the imposition of taxes, and other similar exercises of authority over the persons and property of its subjects, which constitute the sovereignty of the state.

Now the subject is in one respect common, and in another proper, as the body is the common subject of sight, the eye the proper, so the common subject of sovereign power is the state, which has already been said to be a perfect society of men.