the course of justice, <xxvii>
157. 12. Laws and customs inimical to the welfare of states,
CHAPTER XIII Of Justice and Polity.
158. A nation is bound to make justice flourish,
161. Functions and duties of the prince in that respect,
162. How he is to dispense justice,
163. His duty to appoint upright and enlightened judges,
164. The ordinary courts should determine causes relating to the revenue,
165. Necessary to establish supreme courts, from whose sentence there shall be no appeal,
166. The prince bound to observe the forms of justice,
167. to support the authority of the judges, and enforce their decrees,
168. Distributive justice:—distribution of employments and rewards,
169. Punishment of transgressors:—foundation of the right of punishing,
176. Means of putting a stop to that disorder,
CHAPTER XIV Third Object of a good Government,— to fortify itself against external Attacks.
177. A nation ought to fortify herself against external attacks,
183. Public revenues and taxes,
184. The nation ought not to increase her power by unlawful means,
185. Power is but relative, <xxviii>
CHAPTER XV Of the Glory of a Nation.
187. Duty of the nation.—How true glory is acquired,
191. Attacking the glory of a nation is doing her an injury,
CHAPTER XVI Protection sought by a Nation, and her voluntary Submission to a Foreign Power.
193. Voluntary submission of one nation to another,
194. Several kinds of submission,
195. Right of the citizens when the nation submits to a foreign power,
196. These compacts annulled by the failure of protection,
197. or by the infidelity of the party protected,
198. and by the encroachments of the protector,
199. How the right of the nation protected is lost by her silence,
