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Quotation from The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
“An equal commonwealth (by that which has been said) is a government established upon an equal agrarian, arising into the superstructures or three orders, the Senate debating and proposing, the people resolving, and the magistracy executing, by an equal rotation through the suffrage of the people given by the ballot.”
The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part I, The Preliminaries (Morley's Universal Library edition (1887), Project Gutenberg text)
Harrington's one-sentence summary of the constitution the Model will set out.
Citation: "An equal commonwealth (by that which has been said) is a government established upon an equal agrarian, arising into the superstructures or three orders, the Senate debating and proposing, the people resolving, and the magistracy executing, by an equal rotation through the suffrage of the people given by the ballot." — James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part I, The Preliminaries (Morley's Universal Library edition (1887), Project Gutenberg text). (id harrington-oceana-q7)
Portrait: James Harrington (jha), Unknown artist, Public domain.
