I am persuaded that where ever any single Man had Power to do himself right upon a _deceitful Trustee_, he would do it. That Thought well digested would go a great way towards the discouraging Invasions upon Rights, _&c._ I lay down then as a Fundamental, 1st, that in every Constitution there is _some Power_ which neither will nor ought to be bounded. 2. That the King's Prerogative should be as _plain_ a thing as the People's Obedience. 3. That a Power which may by parity of Reason destroy the whole Laws, can never be reserved by the Laws. 4. That in all limited Governments it must give the Governor Power to _hurt_, but it can never be so interpreted as to give him Power to _destroy_, for then in effect it would cease to be a limited Government. 5. That Severity be rare and great; for as _Tacitus_ sayeth of _Nero_, "Frequent Punishments made the People call even his Justice Cruelty." 6. That it is necessary to make the Instruments of Power easy; for Power is hard enough to be digested by those under it at the best. 7. That the People are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and sting if not stroked at seasonable times. 8. That a Prince must think if he loseth his People he can never regain them. It is both wise and safe to think so. 9. That Kings assuming Prerogative teach the People to do so too. 10. That Perogative is a Trust. 11. That they are not the _King_'s Laws, nor the _Parliament_'s Laws, but the _Laws of England_, in which after they have passed by the Legislative Power, the People have the _Property_, and the King the _Executive_ part. 12. That no Abilities should qualify a noted Knave to be employed in Business. A Knave can by none of his Dexterities make amends for the Scandal he bringeth upon the Crown. 13. That those who will not be bound by the _Laws_, rely upon _Crimes_: a third way was never found in the World to secure any Government. 14. That a Seaman be a Seaman; a Cabinet-Counsellor a Man of Business; an Officer, an Officer. 15. In corrupted Governments the Place is given for the sake of the Man; in good ones the Man is chosen for the sake of the Place. 16. That Crowds at Court are made up of such as would deceive: The _real Worshippers_ are few. 17. That _Salus Populi_ is the greatest of all Fundamentals, yet not altogether an immoveable one. It is a Fundamental for a Ship to ride at Anchor when it is in Port, but if a Storm cometh the Cable must be cut. 18. _Property_ is not a fundamental Right in one Sense, because in the beginning of the World there was none, so that Property itself was an Innovation introduced by Laws. Property is only secured by trusting it in the best Hands, and those are generally chosen who are least likely to deceive; but if they should, they have a legal Authority to abuse as well as use the Power with which they are trusted, and there is no Fundamental can stand in their way, or be allowed as an Exception to the Authority that was vested in them.