A Second Model of a Commonwealth Propos’d, A Third Model of a Commonwealth Propos’d. The Commonwealth of Sparta.

THAT there be a king without guards.

That the word or command of this king be the law.

That this king stirring out of his palace, it may be lawful for any man to slay him.

IN this model there wants but security, that while the people are dispers’d the king can gather no army, to demonstrat, that either the people must be free, or the king a prisoner.

THAT the nobility, the gentry, and the people, having upon persuasion given up their lands to the public, the whole territory be divided into one hundred thousand equal lots, and two more, being each of ten thousand acres.

That the inferior lots be distributed to the people.

That every man possessing a lot, be a citizen.

That the rest, except only the children of citizens, be servants to, and tillers of the ground for the citizens.

That there be no profess’d students.

That no citizen exercise any trade but that of arms only; and that the use of mony, except it be made of iron, be wholly banish’d.

That there be two kings hereditary: that each of them possess one of those lots of ten thousand acres.

That they be presidents of the senat, with single votes; and that in war they have the leading of the armys.

That there be a senat consisting, besides the kings, of twenty-eight senators, elected for life by the people.

That whatever be propos’d by this senat to the whole people, or any ten thousand of them, and shall be resolv’d by the same, be the law.

That there be a court consisting of five annual magistrats elected by the people; and that this court have power to bring a king, a senator, or other, that shall openly or secretly violat the laws, or invade the government, to justice.