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<p>Here is, 1. The happiness of a people under a good government. The care and business of a prince should be to <i>establish the land</i>, to maintain its fundamental laws, to settle the minds of his subjects and make them easy, to secure their liberties and properties from hostilities and for posterity, and to set in order the things that are wanting; this he must do <i>by judgment</i>, by wise counsels, and by the steady administration of justice, without respect of persons, which will have these good effects. 2. The misery of a people under a bad government: <i>A man of oblations</i> (so it is in the margin) <i>overthrows the land</i>; a man that is either sacrilegious or superstitious, or that invades the priests office, as Saul and Uzziah—or a man that aims at nothing but getting money, and will, for a good bribe, connive at the most guilty, and, in hope of one, persecute the innocent—such governors as these will ruin a country.</p>