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book I.: of laws in general.

book II.: of laws directly derived from the nature of government.

book III.: of the principles of the three kinds of government.

book IV.: that the laws of education ought to be relative to the principles of government.

book V.: that the laws, given by the legislator, ought to be relative to the principle of government.

book VI.: consequences of the principles of different governments with respect to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, the form of judgements, and the inflicting of punishments.

book VII.: consequences of the different principles of the three governments, with respect to sumptuary laws, luxury, and the condition of women.

book VIII.: of the corruption of the principles of the three governments.

book IX.: of laws, in the relation they bear to a defensive force.

book X.: of laws, in the relation they bear to offensive force.

book XI.: of the laws which establish political liberty, with regard to the constitution.

book XII.: of the laws that form political liberty, as relative to the subject.

book XIII.: of the relation which the levying of taxes and the greatness of the public revenues have to liberty.

book XIV.: of laws as relative to the nature of the climate.

book XV.: in what manner the laws of civil slavery are relative to the nature of the climate.

book XVI.: how the laws of domestic slavery have a relation to the nature of the climate.

book XVII.: how the laws of political servitude have a relation to the nature of the climate.

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book XVIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the nature of the soil.

chap. I.: how the nature of the soil has an influence on the laws.

chap. II.: the same subject continued.

chap. III.: what countries are best cultivated.

chap. IV.: new effects of the barrenness and fertility of countries.

chap. V.: of the inhabitants of islands.

chap. VI.: of countries raised by the industry of man.

chap. VII.: of human industry.

chap. VIII.: the general relation of laws.

chap. IX.: of the soil of america.

chap. X.: of population, in the relation it bears to the manner of procuring subsistence.

chap. XI.: of savage and barbarous nations.

chap. XII.: of the law of nations among people who do not cultivate the earth.

chap. XIII.: of the civil law of those nations who do not cultivate the earth.

chap. XIV.: of the political state of the people who do not cultivate the land.

chap. XV.: of people who know the use of money.

chap. XVI.: of civil laws among people who know not the use of money.

chap. XVII.: of political laws amongst nations who have not the use of money.

chap. XVIII.: of the power of superstition.

chap. XIX.: of the liberty of the arabs and the servitude of the tartars.

chap. XX.: of the law of nations as practised by the tartars.

chap. XXI.: the civil law of the tartars.

chap. XXII.: of a civil law of the german nations.

chap. XXIII.: of the regal ornaments among the franks.

chap. XXIV.: of the marriages of the kings of the franks.

chap. XXV.: childeric.

chap. XXVI.: of the time when the kings of the franks became of age.

chap. XXVII.: the same subject continued.

chap. XXVIII.: of adoption among the germans.

chap. XXIX.: of the sanguinary temper of the kings of the franks.

chap. XXX.: of the national assemblies of the franks.

chap. XXXI.: of the authority of the clergy under the first race.

book XIX.: of laws, in relation to the principles which form the general spirit, the morals, and customs, of a nation.

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BOOK XVIII.: OF LAWS IN THE RELATION THEY BEAR TO THE NATURE OF THE SOIL.

CHAP. XIV.: Of the political State of the People who do not cultivate the Land.

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CHAP. XIV.: Of the political State of the People who do not cultivate the Land.

THESE people enjoy great liberty. For, as they do not cultivate the earth, they are not fixed, they are wanderers and vagabonds; and, if a chief should deprive them of their liberty, they would immediately go and seek it under another, or retire into the woods, and there live with their families. The liberty of the man is so great, among these people, that it necessarily draws after it that of the citizen.

CHAP. XIV.: Of the political State of the People who do not cultivate the Land.