§. 108. Thus we see that the kings of the Indians, in America, which is still
a pattern of the first ages in Asia and Europe, whilst the inhabitants were too
few for the country, and want of people and money gave men no temptation to
enlarge their possessions of land or contest for wider extent of ground, are
little more than generals of their armies; and though they command absolutely
in war, yet at home, and in time of peace, they exercise very little dominion,
and have but a very moderate sovereignty, the resolutions of peace and war
being ordinarily either in the people or in a council, though the war itself,
which admits not of pluralities of governors, naturally evolves the command
into the king's sole authority.
