too, for which fault she was reprehended by Aristotle; and she
had her suffetes, and her hundred men, with other magistrates,
executing.

Rome consisted of the Senate proposing, the concio or people
resolving, and too often debating, which caused her storms; as
also of the consuls, censors, aediles, tribunes, praetors,
quaestors, and other magistrates, executing.

Venice consists of the Senate, or pregati, proposing, and
sometimes resolving too, of the great Council or Assembly of the
people, in whom the result is constitutively; as also of the
doge, the signory, the censors, the dieci, the quazancies, and
other magistrates, executing.

The proceeding of the Commonwealths of Switzerland and
Holland is of a like nature, though after a more obscure manner;
for the sovereignties, whether cantons, provinces, or cities,
which are the people, send their deputies, commissioned and
instructed by themselves (wherein they reserve the result in
their own power), to the provincial or general convention, or
Senate, where the deputies debate, but have no other power of
result than what was conferred upon them by the people, or is
further conferred by the same upon further occasion. And for the
executive part they have magistrates or judges in every canton,
province, or city, besides those which are more public, and
relate to the league, as for adjusting controversies between one
canton, province, or city and another, or the like between such
persons as are not of the same canton, province, or city.