Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System.

Merchants and manufacturers are not contented with the monopoly of the home market, but desire likewise the most extensive foreign sale for their goods.

THE legislative power is that which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it

Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry.

THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community

It is but a very small part of this importation which, it can be supposed, is employed as an annual addition, either to the plate or to the coin of the kingdom.

WHERE the legislative and executive power are in distinct hands,there the good of the society requires, that several things should be left to the discretion

The power of the father doth not reach at all to the property of the child, which is only in his own disposing.

All the other enterprizes of the Spaniards in the New World, subsequent to those of Columbus, seem to have been prompted by the same motive.

The progress of many of the ancient Greek colonies towards wealth and greatness seems accordingly to have been very rapid.

Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame of a commonwealth, by destroying the former; but, without the consent of the people, can never erect a new one.

This, so far as it is usurpation, is a change only of persons, but not of the forms and rules of the government

Though the encouragement of exportation, and the discouragement of importation.

The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies

Over and above the expenses necessary for enabling the sovereign to perform his several duties, a certain expense is requisite for the support of his dignity.

Small republics have sometimes derived a considerable revenue from the profit of mercantile projects.

Civil government supposes a certain subordination.

A part of their wool and raw hides, they had generally an opportunity of selling for money.

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