ble good resulting from this change was the satisfaction arising
from being delivered in one day from a herd of insignificant men, mostly
without any merit or shadow of capacity and to who the administration
of department and arrondissement had been surrendered for the past ten
years. As nearly all of them sprung from the lowest ranks in society,
they were only the more disposed to make the weight of their authority
felt."]

[Footnote 2310: Guyot, "Repertoire de jurisprudence" (1785), article
King: "It is a maxim of feudal law that the veritable ownership of
lands, the domain, directum dominium, is vested in the dominant seignior
or suzerain. The domain in use, belonging to the vassal or tenant,
affords him really no right except to its produce."]

[Footnote 2311: Luchaire," Histoire des institutions monarchiques de
la France sous les premiers Capetiens," I., 28, 46. (Texts of Henry I.,
Philip I., Louis VI., and Louis VII.) "A divine minister."--(Kings are)
"servants of the kingdom of God."--"Gird on the ecclesiastical sword
for the punishment of the wicked."--"Kings and priests alone, by
ecclesiastical ordination, are made sacred by the anointing of holy
oils."]

[Footnote 2312: "The Revolution," III., p.94. (Laffont II, p. 75)]

[Footnote 2313: Janssen, "L'Allemagne a la fin du moyen age" (French
translation), I., 457. (On the introduction of Roman law into
Germany.)--Declaration of the jurists at the Diet of Roncaglia: "Quod
principi placuit, legis habet vigorem."--Edict of Frederick I., 1165:
"Vestigia praedecessorum suorum, divorum imperatorum, magni Constantini
scilicet et Justiniani et Valentini,... sacras eorum leges,...
divina oracula.... Quodcumque imperator constituerit, vel cognoscens
decreverit, vel edicto praeceperit, legem esse constat."--Frederick II.:
"Princeps legibus solutus est."--Louis of Bavaria: "Nos qui sumus supra
jus."]

[Footnote 2314: Guyot, ibid., article Regales. "The great 'regales,'
majora regalia, are those which belong to the King, jure singulari et
proprio, and which are incommunicable to another, considering that
they cannot be divorced from the scepter, being the attributes of
sovereignty, such as... the making of laws, the interpretation or
change of these, the last appeal from the decisions of magistrates, the
creation of offices, the declaration of war or of peace,... the coining
of money, the augmentation of titles or of values, the imposition of
taxes on the subjects,... t