In which it is compared with the REPUBLICAN Form of
GOVERNMENT, and occafionally with the
other MONARCHIES in EUROPE.

By J. L. DE LOLME, Advocate,

CITIZEN OF GENEVA.

Ponderibus librata fuis.-

ÖVID. Met. L. I. 13.

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INTRODUCTION

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CHAP.

I. Caufes of the Liberty of the English
Nation. Reafons of the difference
between the Government of France,
and that of England. In England,
the great power of the Crown,
efpecially under the first Norman
Kings, created an union between the
Nobility and the People

II. A fecond advantage England had over
France-it formed one undivided

State

II. The Subject continued

III. Of the Legislative Power

IV. Of the Executive Power

V. The boundaries which the Conftitution has fet to the Royal Prerogative

VI. The fame Subject continued

VII. New Reftrictions

VIII. Of private Liberty, or the Liberty of
Individuals

IX. Of Criminal Juftice

X. The fame Subject continued

XI. The Subject concluded,-Laws relative to Imprisonments

I. Some Advantages peculiar to the Eng-
lifh Conftitution. 1. The Unity of

the Executive Power

II. The Executive Power is more eafily confined when it is ONE