Six books of the commonwealth
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BOOK ONE
The final end of the well-ordered commonwealth [Chapter 1 Concerning the family[Chapters II-VI] Concerning the citizen (Chapters VI and VII] Concerning sovereignty[Chapter VIII] Concerning feudatory and tributary princes [Chapter IX] The true attributes of sovereignty (Chapter X]
BOOK Two
of the different kinds of commonwealth [Chapter 1] Concerning despotic monarchy [Chapter II] Concerning royal monarchy [Chapter III] Concerning tyrannical monarchy [Chapters IV and V] Concerning the aristocratic state [Chapter VI] Concerning popular states [Chapter VII]
BOOK THREE The council [Chapter 1] Officers of state and holders of commissions [Chapters II and III] The magistrate [Chapters IV and V] Concerning corporate associations, guilds, estates, and communities [Chapter VII]
BOOK FOUR The rise and fall of commonwealths [Chapter I] That changes of government and changes in law should not be sudden [Chapter III] Whether the tenure of office in the commonwealth should be permanent [Chapter IV] Whether the prince should render justice to his subjects in person [Chapter VI] How seditions be avoided [Chapter VII]
BOOK FIVE The order to be observed in adapting the form of the common wealth to divers conditions of men, and the means of de termining their dispositions [Chapter 1] How to prevent those disorders which spring from excessive wealth and excessive poverty [Chapter II] Concerning rewards and punishments [Chapter IV] Whether it is expedient to arm subjects, fortify and organize for war (Chapter V] The keeping of treaties and alliances between princes [Chapter VI]
BOOK SIX The census and the censorship [Chapter 1] The revenues [Chapter II] A comparison of the three legitimate types of commonwealth, popular, aristocratic, and monarchical, concluding in favour of monarchy [Chapter IV] That in a royal monarchy succession should not be by election nor in the female line, but by hereditary succession in the male line [Chapter V] Concerning distributive, commutative, and harmonic justice,and their relation to the aristocratic, popular, and monarchical states [Chapter VI]