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Landholders, want of trade a great
loss to them,

25, 54, 56

Laws (human) must not be con-
trary to the law of nature or
Scripture,
419, note
Legislative power, how it is bound-
ed,
423
Liberty, how men are by nature in
the state of it,
339

wherein it consists, 351
restraint by the law of na-
ture consistent with it, 341

how far it is given up, by
becoming members of a com-
monwealth,
396, &c.
Lineal succession, not restored in
the kings of Israel, 337
none observed among
the rulers of Israel till David's
time,
334
Lowndes (Mr.) propounded to have
our money reduced to one-fifth
less value,

153

his reasons for lessening
the value of money, answered,

ibid.

M.

Monarchy, how government, at
first, generally came to be so,
400. Vid. Absolute Monarchy.

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or scarceness,

82

raising in denomination,
tends to impoverish a nation,
86

is valued according to the
quantity of silver contained in
it, 89.-How it comes to be
otherwise when clipped, 94

the advantage of it in com-
merce above uncoined silver,
88
the cause of melting it down,
90

it is better for the public to
be milled than hammered, 91
raising the denomination
will not hinder the exportation
of it,
91, 93
the value of it should be kept
as steady as possible, 103
the proportion should always
be exactly kept between that of
gold and silver,
97, 99
constant equality of its value,
the interest of every country, ib.

making it lighter than it
should be is unjust, 109, &c.
lowering it, no advantage in
selling and letting of land, 112,

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Money, it is really valuable ac-
cording to its weight, 139.-
This must be understood of
silver without the alloy, 140
why so much was coined
in queen Elizabeth's time, and
after,
130
-how it answers all things, 139
the denomination alters not
the intrinsic value, ibid.
lessening its real value is
worse than clipping, 146

its being current only for its
weight, is the most effectual way
to stop the mischief of clipping,
147
it is necessary in proportion to
the plenty of it in neighbouring
nations,
148
it will always be of equal
value with the same weight of
standard silver,

158

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by making it one-fifth light-
er, creditors and landlords lose
20 per cent.

168
and labourers also lose by
it, unless they have one-fifth
more wages,

170

the change of its name will
not alter its value,
177
the insignificancy of lessen-
ing, explained by familiar simi-
litudes,
ibid.
if a crown of it (e. g.) be
called 75 pence, it will buy no
more goods than if it be called
60 pence,
180
lowering its value will not
render it more generally use-
ful,
ibid.
it cannot be of the full price
of bullion, because of exporting
the latter,
184
the true raising it is by put-
ting more silver in it, 185

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by law-makers,

6

frequent oaths a great oc-

casion of it,
ibid.
Peru, some of the inhabitants fat-
tened and eat children, 254
Political power, what it is, 338,

339
though in some cases it is
"absolute," yet not "arbitra-
422
ry,"
Political societies, how framed,
394

how they began, 400, &c.
must be determined by the
majority, unless they agree on a
greater number,
395
why we have no historical
account of their beginning, 397,
&c.

Power, paternal, political, and
despotical,

Vid. Supreme.

440

Prerogative, wherein it consists,-

434, &c.
how and why it is some-

times limited,

437
the end of it is the pub-

lic good,

ibid.
who may judge concern-
ing the right or wrong use of
it,
438
if people are injured by
it, they may appeal to Heaven,
439
Price of things not always propor-
tionable to their usefulness, 41
of foreign commodities ad-
vances by being taxed, but that
of home ones falls,

58
the reason of this, ibid.
Property, how men come to have
361, 367
how it is naturally bound-
368, &c.

it,

ed,

- in land and other things, at
first acquired by labour, ibid.

how this is a common ad-
364

vantage,

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proportioned with alloy, 142,

143

Silver, the advantages of its being
mixed with copper, in money, ib.
is brought in by an overba-
lance of trade,
148, 149
is alone the measure of com-
merce, and not gold, 151, 152

when it may be said to rise or
fall in the value of it, 154, 155
it is always in value accord-
ing to its weight, if standard,
156

how unreasonable it is to
pretend it to be worth more un-
coined, than coined, 171-3

whence uncoined sometimes
advances in the price of it, 174
Slavery, it is hard to suppose any
one to plead for it in earnest,

212

wherein it consists, 351

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Slaves, men are not born such, 213, Usurpation, wherein it consists,

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