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A45611 Brief directions shewing how a fit and perfect model of popular government may be made, found, or understood Harrington, James, 1611-1677. 1659 (1659) Wing H807; ESTC R4541 13,502 24

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of the Senates give the Vote of their Principals according unto instruction and that neither the Nobility nor any Senate or Soveraignty be otherwise bound than by their own Vote That the Provincial Estates Elect one Magistrate for life or during pleasure to be Provincial Governour That they Elect one or more other Magistrates for life or during pleasure to be States General That the States General being Elected and well instructed by their Provinces have the direction of the whole League That each give not his own Vote but the Vote of his Province and that no Province be othewise bound than by her own Vote IF these Models in which I clame to be the first that hath laid the whole and the highest Mysteries of the ancient Common-wealths unto the lowest capacity of Vulgar Debate be not all in the mouthes of great men and in Pamphlets for Chymera's or Utopia's it is great chance Yet contain they no less than the whole Revolution of Popular Prudence Nor is it more certain That no one of them would fit the present state of this Nation than that he or they whose Contemplation and Vnderstanding is not well versed in the most or in the best of these shall never fit a Model of Popular Government unto the present state of this Nation or of any other In which assurance I come to fulfil my promise in the Second Part or to propose such a Model as is fitted unto the present state of this Nation THE SECOND PART Proposing a MODEL of A COMMON-WEALTH Fitted unto the Present State of this Nation But so it is ever That the Humours or Interests of predominant Parties hold themselves to be National and that which fitteth them can never fit a Nation nor that which fitteth a Nation ever fit them This in the Introduction of Government is alwayes the main Difficulty But where parties are no better founded or fitted for Vsurpation than now in England they are rather to be slighted than considered as these the stoutest whereof have but given this Example unto the rest That they who in this state of Affairs shall obstruct an equal and well-ordered Government shall but ruine themselves For which cause it is proposed 1. THat all Citizens that is Freemen or such as are not Servants be distributed into Horse and Foot That such of them as have one hundred pounds a yeer in Lands Goods or Money or above this proportion be of the Horse and all such as have under this proportion be of the Foot 2. That all Elders or Free-men being thirty years of age or upwards be capable of civil administration and that the Youth or such Free-men as are between Eighteen years of age and Thirty be not capable of civil administration but of military only in such manner as shall follow in the military part of this Model 3. That the whole Native or proper Territory of the Common Wealth be cast with as much exactness as can be convenient into known and fixed Praecincts or Parishes 4. That the Elders resident in each Parish annually assemble in the same for example upon Monday next ensuing the last of December That they then there elect out of their own nnmber every fifth Man or one Man of every five to be for the term of the year ensuing a Deputy of that Parish and that the first and second so elected be Overseers or Presidents for the regulating of all parochial congregations whether of the Elders or of the Youth during the term for which they were elected 5. That so many Parishes lying neerest together whose Deputies shall amount to one hundred or thereabouts be cast into one Precinct called the Hundred and that in each Precinct called the Hundred there be a Town Village or place appointed to be the Capital of the same 6. That the parochial Deputies elected throughout the Hundred assemble annually for example upon Monday next ensuing the last of January at the Capital of their Hundred That they then and there elect out of the Horse of their number one Justice of the peace one Jury Man one Captain one Ensigne and out of the Foot of their number one other Jury Man one high Constable c. 7. That every twenty Hundreds lying neerest and most conveniently together be cast into one Tribe that the whole Territory being after this manner cast into Tribes some Town or place be appointed unto every Tribe for the Capital of the same And that these three Precincts that is the Parish the Hundred and the Tribe whether the Deputies thenceforth annually chosen in the Parishes or Huudreds come to increase or diminish remain firm and inalterable for ever save only by Act of Parliament The Tribes are presumd throughout these propositions to amount unto fifty 8. That the Deputies elected in the several Parishes together with their Magistrates and other officers both civil and Military elected in the several Hundreds assemble or muster annually for example upon Monday next ensuing the last of February at the Capital of their Tribe for the space of two days 9. That this whole body thus assembled upon the first day of their assembly elect out of the Horse of their number one High Sheriff one Lieutenant of the Tribe one Custos Rotulorum one Conductor and two Censors That the High Sheriff be Commander in chief the Lieutenant commander in the second place and the Conductor in the third place of this Band or Squadron That the Censors Rotulorum be Muster-Master and keep the rolls That the Censors be Governours of the ballot and that the term of these Magistracies be annual 10. That the Magistrates of the Tribe that is to say the High Sheriff Lieutenant Custos Rotulorum the Censors and the Conductor together with the Magistrates and Officers of the Hundreds that is to say the twenty Justices of the Peace the forty Jury men the twenty High Constables be one Troop or one Troop and one Company a part called the Prerogative Troop or Company That this Troop bring in and assist the Justices of Assize hold the Quarter Sessions in their several Capacities and perform their other functions as formerly 11. That the Magistrates of the Tribe that is to say the High Sheriff Lieutenant Custos Rotulorum the Censors and the Conductor together with the twenty Justices elected at the Hundreds be a 〈◊〉 for the Government of the Tribe called the Phylarch and that this Court proceed in all matter of Government as shall from time to time be directed by Act of Parliament 12. That the Squadron of the Tribe upon the second day of their assembly elect two Knights and three Burgesses out of the Horse of their number and four other Burgesses out of the Foot of their number that each Knight upon election forthwith make Oath of allegiance unto the Common-Wealth or refusing such Oath the next compe●itor in election to the same Magistracy making the said Oath be the Magistrate The like for the Burgesses That the Knights