The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
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page 174 of 382 (45%)
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The fifteenth order requiring, "That upon every Monday next
ensuing the last of March, the knights of the annual galaxies taking their places in the Senate, be called the third region of the same; and that the house having dismissed the first region, and received the third, proceed to election of the magistrates contained in the first part of the tropic, by the ensuing schedule: The lord strategus, The lord orator, the first censor, The second censor, Annual magistrates, The third commissioner of the seal, The third commissioner of the Treasury, Triennal magistrates. "The annual magistrates (provided that no one man bears above one of those honors during the term of one session) may be elected out of any region. But the triennial magistrates may not be elected out of any other than the third region only, lest the term of their session expire before that of their honor; and (it being unlawful for a man to bear magistracy any longer than he is thereto qualified by the election of the people) cause a fraction in the rotation of this commonwealth. "The strategus is first president of the Senate, and general |
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