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The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
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of the army, if it be commanded to march; in which case there
shall be a second strategus elected to be first president of the
Senate, and general of the second army, and if this also be
commanded to march, a third strategus shill be chosen, and so on,
as long as the commonwealth sends forth armies.

"The lord orator is the second and more peculiar president of
the Senate to whom it appertains to keep the house to orders.

"The censors, whereof the first, by consequence of his
election, is chancellor of the University of Clio, and the second
of that of Calliope, are presidents of the Council for Religion
and magistrates, to whom it belongs to keep the house to the
order of the ballot. They are also inquisitors into the ways and
means of acquiring magistracy, and have power to punish indirect
proceedings in the same, by removing a knight or magistrate out
of the house, under appeal to the Senate.

"The commissioners of the seal being three, whereof the third
is annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in
chancery.

"The commissioners of the Treasury being three, whereof the
third is annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in
the exchequer, and every magistrate of this schedule has right to
propose to the Senate.

"But the strategus with the six commissioners is the signory
of this commonwealth, having right of session and suffrage in
every council of the Senate, and power either jointly or
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