Note 70 — Chapter VI

In the thirteenth century the friars rallied to Simon of Montfort and preached, not democracy, but constitutional liberty.[70] Thomas Aquinas, the great Dominican doctor, became the chief exponent of political theory, and maintained that sovereignty expressed in legislative power should be exercised for the common good, and that a mixed government of monarch, nobles, and people, with the Pope as a final Court of Appeal, would best attain that end.[71]