for the form of government depending upon the placing the supreme power, which is the legislative, it being impossible to conceive that an inferior power should prescribe to a superior, or any but the supreme make laws, according as the power of making laws is placed, such is the form of the commonwealth.
Horrela, bada, botere gorena-hau da botere legegilea-norengan dagoen araberakoa denez gobernu modua, eta ezinezkoa denez beheragoko botere batek gorenarengan manatzea, ez eta inork legeak egitea ez bada botere gorenak, hortaz, non dagoen legeak egiteko boterea, halakoa izanen da errepublika forma.