| Friday Decr. 24. 1762 i.I Of Jurisprudence. Jurisprudence is the theory of the rules by which civil governments ought to be directed. It attempts to shew the foundation of the different systems of government in different countries and to shew how far they are founded in reason. We will find that there are four things which will be the design of every government: 1 The first and chief design of every system of government is to maintain justice; to prevent the members of a society from incroaching on one anothers property, or siezing what is not their own. The design here is to give each one the secure and peacable possession of his own property. (The end proposed by justice is the maintaining men in what are called their perfect rights.) When this end, which we may call the internall peace, or 2 peace within doors, is | secured, the government will next be desirous of promoting the opulence of the state. This produces what we call police. Whatever regulations are made with re . . .