which they would propose to the
people, cause it to be printed and published, or promulgated for the
space of six weeks, which, being ordered, they choose their proposers.
The proposers must be magistrates, that is, the commissioners of the
seal, those of the Treasury, or the censors. These being chosen, desire
the muster of the tribunes, and appoint the day. The people being
assembled at the day appointed, and the decree proposed, that which is
proposed by authority of the Senate, and commanded by the people, is the
law of Oceana, or an act of Parliament.

"So the Parliament of Oceana consists of the Senate proposing, and the
people resolving.

"The people or prerogative are also the supreme judicatory of this
nation, having power of hearing and determining all causes of appeal
from all magistrates, or courts provincial or domestic, as also to
question any magistrate, the term of his magistracy being expired, if
the case be introduced by the tribunes, or any one of them.

"The military orbs consist of the youth, that is, such as are from
eighteen to thirty years of age; and are created in the following
manner:

"Every Wednesday next ensuing the last of December, the youth of
every parish, assembling, elect the fifth of their number to be their
deputies; the deputies of the youth are called stratiots, and this is
the first essay.

"Every Wednesday next ensuing the last of January, the stratiots,
assembling at the hundred, elect their captain and their ensign, and
fall to their games and sports.

"Every Wednesday next ensuing the last of February the stratiots are
received by the lord lieutenant, their commander-in-chief, with the
conductors and the censors; and, having been disciplined and entertained
with other games, are called to the urns, where they elect the second
essay, consisting of 200 horse and 600 foot in a tribe; that is, of
10,000 horse and 30,000 foot in all the tribes, which is the standing
army of this nation, to march at any warning. They also elect at the
same time a part of the third essay, by the mixture of balls marked with
the letter M and the letter P, for Marpesia and Panopea; they of either
mark being ten horse and fifty foot in a tribe, that is, 500 horse and
2,500 foot in all the tribes, which are forthwith to march to their
respective provinces.

"But the third essay of this nation more properly so called, is when the
strategus with the polemarchs (the Senate and the people or the Di