A Fourth Model of a Commonwealth Propos’d. The Commonwealth of Athens.

THAT there be a representative of the people, consisting of five thousand.

That these annually elect by lot a senat consisting of four hundred, and a signory by suffrage consisting of nine annual princes.

That each fourth part of the senat, for one fourth part of their annual term, be a council of state.

That the council of state may assemble the people, and propose to the same: that the senat may assemble the people, and propose to them. And that what is propos’d by the senat, and resolv’d by the people, be the law.

That the executive power of the laws made, be more especially committed and distributed in various functions, and divers administrations, to the nine princes.