Note 125 — XIV METHODS OF LAW-MAKING IN ROME AND IN ENGLAND

I saw a few years ago, in the ruins of Salona in Dalmatia, a lately uncovered inscription, dating apparently from the sixth or seventh century A.D., in which the protection of God is asked for the ‘respublica Romana.’ It need hardly be said that the term has in strictness nothing to do with the form of government, no more than has our English term ‘Commonwealth.’