133. By commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is commonwealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not; for there may be subordinate communities in a government;
133. Errepublika [common-wealth] hitza erabiltzen dudanean ez dut esan gura demokrazia edo eta nolabaiteko gobernu modu jakin bat, aldiz, edozein erkidego independentez ari naiz, latindarrek civitas zeritzoten hartaz, gure hizkuntzan itzulpen onena errepublika hitza den hori, eta bat datorrena latindar hitzarekin. Erkidego edo hiri hitzak ez letozke lar ondo, erkidego asko izan baitaitezke gobernu baten mende edo azpian, eta hiri hitzak gure artean erabat esanahi ezberdina dauka.