HARRINGTON'S PREROGATIVE OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT, c. iii. p. 226.
The balance of dominion in land is the natural cauſe of empire; and this is the principle which makes politics a ſcience undeniable throughout, and the moſt demonſtrable of any whatever.—If a man, having one hundred pounds a year, may keep one ſervant, or have one man at his command, then, having one hundred times ſo much, he may keep one hundred ſervants; and this multiplied by a thouſand, he may have one hundred thouſand men at his command.—Now that the ſingle perſon, or nobility, of any country in Europe, that had but half ſo many men at command, would be king or prince, is that which I think no man can doubt. But "No money, no Swiſs."—The reaſon why a ſingle perſon, or the nobility, that has one hundred thouſand men, or half ſo many, at command, will have the government, is, that the eſtate in land, whereby they are able to maintain ſo many, in any European territory, muſt over-balance the reſt that remains to the people, at leaſt three parts in four. Now, for the fame reafon, if the people hold three parts in four of the territory, it is plain there can neither be any ſingle perſon or nobility able to diſpute the government with them. In this caſe, therefore, except force be interpoſed, they govern themſelves. So that by this computation of the balance of property or dominion in the land, you have, according to the three-fold foundation of property, the root or generation of the three-fold kind of government or empire. If one man be ſole landlord of a territory, or over-balance the whole people, three parts in four, or thereabouts, he is grand ſeignior; for ſo the Turk, not from
