On  the  fifteenth  day  of  March,  in  the  fame  year,    1390*
the  record  was  approved    in  the  general  council,
and  authority  was  given  to  the  lords  priors  to  ap-
point a  fyndic,  and  a  deputy  of  the  commons  of

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Siena*

Siena,  to  execute  all  that  was  contained  in  the  re-
folution,  and  deliver  the  keys  of  the  city  to  the
commiffaries  of  the  count  Galeazzo,  with  its-
abfolute  dominion,  without  pact  or  convention
of  any  kind.  The  example  is  here  completes
and  although  the  tyranny  of  the  Vifconti  was  af-
terwards overturned,  various  forms  of  a  republic
attempted,  exiles  fent  out  and  recalled  as  ufual,.
yet  as  the  executive  power  was  always  left  in  an
afTembly,  and  inveterate  factions  were  not  le-
gally feparated  from  each  other,  nor  impower-
ed  to  contioul  each  other,  the  lame  divifions,  fedi-
tions,  and  civil  wars,  were  perpetual,  till  the  fame
weaiinefs  induced  the  people  again  to  confer  the
fovereignty  on  the  grand  duke  of  Etruria,  where
it  remains  to  this  time.  It  is  not  eafy  to  conceive
what  further  experiments  can  be  made  of  a  fove-
reignty in  one  afTembly,  or  how  the  confequences
to  be  drawn  from  them  can  be  more  decifive.
Whether  the  afTembly  confilts  of  a  larger  or  a  fmal-
Ier  number,  of  nobles  or  commons,  of  great  people
or  little,  of  rich  or  poor,  of  fubftantial  men  or
the  rabble,  the  effects  are  all  the  fame  :  No  or-
der, 710  Jafety>  no  liberty  >  becaufe  no  government  of
law.
