De Laicis, or The Treatise on Civil Government (partial translation)
Translated by Kathleen E. Murphy
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The opening
CHAPTER I. SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE QUESTION AT ISSUE
SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE QUESTION AT ISSUE
We have examined two branches of the Church—that is, the clergy and monks; it remains for us to discuss the third—that is, the laity or seculars, and likewise to discuss those branches severed from the Church, that is, heretics. The whole may be reduced to a discussion of political magistracy.
This entire discussion falls under six heads. Firstly, we must discuss the nature itself of political power; secondly, its scope in affairs of state; thirdly, its scope in the matter of religion.
On the first point two questions arise: first, whether this power is good by nature; secondly, whether it is lost through sin.
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- The words
- Kathleen E. Murphy's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- The scanning library's barcode and stamps on the cover, read as characters
- The Internet Archive's digitization notice (2 blocks)
- The half-title (“DE LAICIS OR THE TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT”) (2 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- The copyright and printer's lines (“Copyright, 1928, By Fordham University Press, Printed in U.S.A.”) (3 blocks)
- Specks and stamp marks read as characters (“eu”, “aa”, “A J~O”) (5 blocks)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 6 places
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 4 places
- The library's stamp (“LIBRARY ... MOUNT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE”), read as characters (2 blocks)
- The printer's line (“PRINTED IN U.S.A.”)
- Other material that isn't the author's
- Specks and the back cover read as characters (4 blocks)
- A speck read as “K” at the head of the page
- A speck read as “K” at the foot of the page