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• Preface and Introduction
• Book I - Chapters I to IV (Introduction; To what end does government exist among all men?; To actualize the whole capacity of the possible intellect in speculation and action.; To attain this end humanity requires universal peace.)
• Book I - Chapters V to VIII (When several things are ordained for one end, one must rule and the others obey.; The order which is found in the parts of the human race should be found in the race as a whole.; The relation of kingdoms and nations to the monarch should be that of humanity to God.; Men are made in the image of God; but God is one.)
• Book I - Chapters IX to XII (Men, as the sons of Heaven, should follow in the footprints of Heaven.; In order to settle all disputes a supreme judge is necessary.; The world is best ordered when in it Justice is preëminent.; Humanity is ordered for the best when most free.)
• Book I - Chapters XIII to XVI (He who is best adapted for ruling is the best director of other men.; What one agent can do is better done by one than by many.; In every sort of thing that is best which is most one.; Christ willed to be born in the fullness of time when Augustus was Monarch.)
• Book II - Chapters I to IV (Introduction; What God wills in human society is to be held as right.; The Romans as the noblest people deserved precedence before all others; Because the Roman Empire was aided by miracles it was willed of God.)
• Book II - Chapters V to VIII (The Roman people in subduing the world had in view the good of the state and therefore the end of Right.; He who purposes Right proceeds according to Right.; The Roman people were ordained for Empire by nature.; The decree of God showed that Empire belonged to the Roman people.)
• Book II - Chapters IX to XIII (The Romans were victorious over all contestants for Empire.; That which is acquired by single combat is acquired with Right.; The single combats of the Roman people.; Christ in being born proved that the authority of the Roman Empire was just.; Christ in dying confirmed the jurisdiction of the Roman Empire over all humanity.)
• Book III - Chapters I to IV (Introduction; God wills not that which is counter to the intention of nature.; Of the three classes of our opponents and the too great authority many ascribe to tradition.; The opponents’ argument adduced from the sun and moon.)
• Book III - Chapters V to VIII (Argument from the precedence of Levi over Judah.; Argument from the election and deposition of Saul by Samuel.; Argument from the oblation of the Magi.; Argument from the prerogative of the keys consigned to Peter.)
• Book III - Chapters IX to XII (Argument from the two swords.; Argument from the donation of Constantine.; Argument from the summoning of Charles the Great by Pope Hadrian.; Argument from reason.)
• Book III - Chapters XIII to XVI (The authority of the Church is not the source of Imperial authority.; The Church received power of transference neither from God, from herself, nor from any Emperor.; The prerogative of conferring authority upon the Empire is contrary to the nature of the Church.; The authority of the Empire derives from God directly.)