Numb. 91.
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the summe of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designa
now on foot in the three Nations of
England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In defence of the Common-wealth, and
for Information of the People.
------ It à vertere seria. {Hor. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday, February 26. to Thursday, March 4. 1652.
WE have onely one Reason more to insist
upon, for the proof of our Position, that
a Free-state, or government by the People,
setled in a due and orderly succession
of their supreme Assemblies, is much
more excellent then any other Form.
The Fifteenth, and last Reason, is, because
in this Form, all Powers are accountable
for misdemeanours in Government, in regard of
the nimble Returns and periods of the Peoples election: by
which means he that erewhile was a Governor, being reduced
to the condition of a Subject, lyes open to the force of the
Laws, and may with ease be brought to punishment for his
offence: so that after the observation of such a Cours, others
which succeed, will becom the lesse daring to offend, or to
abuse their Trust in authority, to an oppression of the People.
Such a cours as this, cuts the very throat of all Tyranny, and