a vast applause and exultation of the whole tribe, attending him
for that night to his quarter, as the phylarch with some
commanded troops did the next day to the frontiers of the tribe,
where leave was taken on both sides with more tears than grief.

So a tribe is the third division of land occasioned by the
third collection of the people, whose functions proper to that
place are contained in the five foregoing orders.

The institution of the commonwealth was such as needed those
props and scaffolds which may have troubled the reader; but I
shall here take them away, and come to the constitution which
stands by itself, and yields a clearer prospect.

The motions, by what has been already shown, are spherical;
and spherical motions have their proper centre, for which cause
(ere I proceed further) it will be necessary, for the better
understanding of the whole, that I discover the centre whereupon
the motions of this commonwealth are formed.

The centre, or basis of every government, is no other than
the fundamental laws of the same.

Fundamental laws are such as state what it is that a man, and
what the means may call his own, that is to say, property; be
whereby a man may enjoy his own, that is to say, protection. The
first is also called dominion, and the second empire or sovereign
power, whereof this (as has been shown) is the natural product of
the former, for such as is the balance of dominion in a nation,
such is the nature of its empire.