# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1863_S305
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Theological Axioms. 305

It is necessary to distinguish between princes who possess full territorial sovereignty and have unrestricted power, and princes whose power is limited and circumscribed by treaties entered into between them and the chief men of the realm.

18. Si rex partem habeat summi imperii, partem alteram populus, senatus, regi, in partem non suam involanti, vis opponi potest, quia eatenus imperium non habet. (Dannhauer.)

When the king holds one part of the territorial sovereignty, and the people, the senate, hold the other part, then if the king encroaches on territory that is not his own, force may be set against him, because to that extent he has no ruling power.

19. Paralogismus est: si omnis potestas a Deo ac ideo irresistibilis, igitur nec tyrannidi injuste invadenti resistendum. (idem.) —

It is a false conclusion: that because every power is from God and therefore may not be resisted, no resistance may be offered even to a tyrant who commits an unjust invasion.

20. Quoad vires resistendi desunt, invasoris imperium jus habet obligandi; non quod ita justum sit, sed quia probabile est, eum, qui jus imperandi habet, malle interim recta esse, quae imperantur, quam sublatis legibus judiciisque omnia confundi. (Idem.)

So long as the strength to resist is lacking, the rule of one who commits an invasion carries a binding right — not because it is so just, but because it is to be assumed that he who holds the right to rule would rather, in the meantime, that what is commanded be right, than that with the abolition of laws and courts everything fall into disorder.

21. Principes sunt propter subditos, non autem subditi propter principes. (Gerhard.)

Princes exist for the sake of their subjects, not the subjects for the sake of the princes.

22. Princeps est veluti tutor et administrator reipublicae, cujus dicitur dominus non quoad proprietatem, sed quoad gubernationem et protectionem. (Idem.)

A prince is, as it were, the guardian and administrator of the state, of which he is called lord not with respect to ownership, but with respect to government and protection.

23. Multa potest princeps, quae conscienter non potest. (Dannh.)

A prince can do many things which he cannot do with a good conscience.

24. Non loquitur 1 Sam. 8. de jure justo et legitimo, sed de facto, cum effectu juris obligatorio ad non resistendum. (Dannhauer.)

The passage 1 Sam. 8 speaks not of a just and lawful right (of a king), but of a factual one, carrying the effect of a right binding one not to resist. (To be continued.)

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