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[English Translation]            of'Antangil.       Book two.           23[1] ========================= Of the Council of the Royal Majesty. CHAP. IV.       All these great Statesmen having seen that it was not enough to have established the Council of the Provinces since if there were any notable difference between them, there would be no one who could reconcile them, & also that changing every year, they would be new to the affairs of State, & it would not be sufficient that just a small number be chosen and elected from among the most capable of all the provinces.       Moved by this consideration, they therefore resolved to elect a hundred great & learned personages, the first in the Kingdom, not in wealth, credit, & power but in contentment & of goodness of mind, lovers of the public good rather than of their own, being at least forty years old,[2] especially since youth is in no way fit to govern, but rather to precipitate, albeit that there may be found ones modest, wise, & considerate. However, this is very rare, & they cannot have                                                    B 4

1. The "3" in the page number of "23" is backwards. 2. SEE—Livy, The History of Rome, book 40, 44 for the earliest record of a law being passed that restricted the age of an elected official, "A law was passed for the first time this year fixing the age at which men could be candidates for or hold a magistracy."