fall, so it fares with the law swaying from reason, and the
militia from the balance of dominion. And thus much for the
balance of national or domestic empire, which is in dominion.

The balance of foreign or provincial empire is of a contrary
nature. A man may as well say that it is unlawful for him who has
made a fair and honest purchase to have tenants, as for a
government that has made a just progress and enlargement of
itself to have provinces. But how a province may be justly
acquired appertains to another place. In this I am to show no
more than how or upon what kind of balance it is to be held; in
order whereto I shall first show upon what kind of balance it is
not to be held. It has been said, that national or independent
empire, of what kind soever, is to be exercised by them that have
the proper balance of dominion in the nation; wherefore
provincial or dependent empire is not to be exercised by them
that have the balance of dominion in the province, because that
would bring the government from provincial and dependent, to
national and independent. Absolute monarchy, as that of the
Turks, neither plants its people at home nor abroad, otherwise
than as tenants for life or at will; wherefore its national and
provincial government is all one. But in governments that admit
the citizen or subject to dominion in lands, the richest are they
that share most of the power at home; whereas the richest among
the provincials, though native subjects, or citizens that have
been transplanted, are least admitted to the government abroad;
for men, like flowers or roots being transplanted, take after the
soil wherein they grow. Wherefore the Commonwealth of Rome, by
planting colonies of its citizens within the bounds of Italy,
took the best way of propagating itself, and naturalizing the