So they shall have justice in their own hands, and none to blame but themselves if it be not well administered.

In these employments they may exercise and fit themselves till their lot fall to be chosen into THE GRAND COUNCIL, according as their worth and merit shall be taken notice of by the people.

As for controversies that may happen between men of several counties, they may repair, as they now do, to the Capital City.

They should have here also [i.e.in their own Cities and Counties] schools and academies at their own choice, wherein their children may be bred up in their own sight to all learning and noble education, not in grammar only, but in all liberal arts and exercises." This is what would now be called a scheme of _Decentralization_ or _Systematic Local Government_.

The counties, with their chief cities, should be so many little independent communities, each with its legislative council, its law-courts, and its other institutions, employing and tasking the political energies and abilities of the citizens or inhabitants of the district.